Hello fellow homelabbers,

I'm sure I'm not alone in this, and it's also hard to explain, so let me now if you need me to elaborate on it.

I started my homelab journey with an old PC, later on replaced the old PC with a newer one, upgraded the parts and so on.
I'm not at point where I'm rack mounting things and it's all nice and good.
Except, that I'm spending quite a lot of time with consumer hardware, handling parts, doing partially upgrades, looking for second hand and cheap options all the time. Which is starting to bug me out a bit, and the power consumption has exploded.
It's fun and good learning, but it's also frustrating the way I've built it.

Have any of you just put an end to it, saved up some more, and went with proper enterprise hardware, and managed it all properly, or how did you get around this "problem", and what would you suggest going forward with this?