So I’m currently building an app for iOS and android that will need to call to an SQL server and possibly some other services hosted by this server. I don’t really want to go AWS or anything cloud based yet as I don’t know how many people I’ll get on and I don’t feel like having a ballooned cloud bill come in cause I messed up something or got botted. I have 1gig up and down at my home so network should be good enough for now. Big thing is I’m debating between building out a cluster of old dell micro PC’s or just getting a bunch of raspberry pi’s together and some nvme drives. Alternatively, I have some threadeipper 1920 and 1950 CPUs but I’m concerned about power draw considering I live in a condo and I have tripped my power breaker before when I spun up my machine learning rig and it drew more than 1800W total cause my wife was also on her gaming PC. The mini-PC’s and Rpi’s seem like a safer bet but maybe I’m mislead.

Main challenges are my SQL database will need to store images and I’m not sure how that will affect hardware considerations.