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As said it should be fine unless pushing it with something like media files/jellyfin/plex/nextcloud. Nextcloud for example needs few resources but running anything nice would soon crawl. For the best advice a bit more of what you intend to self host would be nice
@3dcadmin Those are actually what I will be selfhosting. I've decied to get Elitedesk 800 G4 (around $160 USD).
If you are going to run Jellyfin or some other media sharing, the key is if you need to transcode media (recompress because the playback device cannot handle it or not). Likely not, nowadays, but research that. If you need transcoding, research; you might get by with an old CPU, or maybe hardware transcoding support, but it's difficult.
Outside transcoding, for file sharing/streaming, every simultaneous client will require additional horsepower and disk transfer usage. If you are the sole client, then likely you can do with an old CPU. But if you and three people more in your household are going to be using the system at the same time, it might be a bit complex.
One of my home servers is a 4gb of RAM, with a "Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G1610T @ 2.30GHz". It's very old and low end, but for file sharing it works quite well, but it rarely has more than a single simultaneous user.
@koala I ended up getting Elitedesk 800 G5 with i7 9th Gen CPU, 32 GB (Kingston)
Is it the Mini variant? I have the G4 Mini with an i7-8700T. Great little machine.
A word of advice: If yours is the G4 Mini, and you run it headless (no monitor), you'll likely run into random crashing/freezing. I'm assuming you'll be running Linux, so if that's the case, it's really easy to fix by appending an extra command at the end of a line in
/etc/default/grub.All good, should be alright!