Suggestions for cheap enterprise grade hardware to run linux headless.
Basically what it says in the title. I did a lot of searching in Internet. I think small form factor computers are mt best bet. But I still feel they are costly for my purpose.
I am going to be running some ansible playbooks periodically on the machine. SBCs i looked at either had very high specs for this use case and thus higher price or they had other fratures i dont want like - wifi, graphics card etc.
I am preferring enterprise hardware because this would eventually be used in business where people will not settle for anything less.
You can basically get rack mount level performance from:
Supermicro SuperWorkstation Tower Servers
Lenovo Thinkstation P Series Server Towers
HPE ML series Tower Servers
Dell Precision Tower Workstations
In your situation, I'd be looking at ebay, serversupply, or other used hardware resalers that offer 2 generations back hardware. Used DDR4 based systems are abundant and cheap enough, go that route.