Benchmarks for HomeLab

If you are into Selfhosting, you will wonder if you should go for a VPS or a SBC/MiniPC.

Where to Deploy

A VPS Recap on Hetzner, DO to ship PoCs and more

About Benchmarking POST

CPU vs RAM vs Disk vs Internet

Sometimes re-purposing an old computer or laptop at home is enough.

SBC vs MiniPC Comparison

OrangePI 5 vs BMAX B4 performance comparison

FireBat AK2 Benchmarks

Under 1L MiniPC Benchmark

Others, you will just do the custom SFF PC build that you ever wanted to get:

X300 Review

Building a SFF Home Server with the Asrock x300

Testing the Thinkpad X13

~1kg x13 laptop review

Also, Power consumtion matters.

Even if you got your a nice solar panel setup:

Solar Panel x MicroControllers

Comparing a ESP32 vs a Pico W

As per my energy experiments: expect idles of ~15W for a x300 / ~10W for a BMAX or a laptop / ~5W for a Pi

Tapo Smart Plug Post

Measuring x300 Linux 15w vs W11 25w consumption via the P110

Testing the Thinkpad X13

~1kg x13 laptop review - SSD Speed Section

The OS you choose will matter to the energy consumption, specially if there is AI/agentic stuff going on that you dont really need.

Internet BenchMarks

When doing constatly these CLI’s is not an option:

ping google.com

We can use these tools to benchmark our internet speed:

Testing 4G Connection

OpenSpeedTest and a TPLink

Testing a Travel Router

SpeedTest Tracker on a GL MT3000

You could also have a look to Monitor solutions: