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A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
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What's your budget?
If you want to make it enterprise, buy a Dell or HP server (maybe Fujitsu if you're not in the US, or Lenovo, Cisco, or IBM if you get a good deal and are okay with it being uncommon and weird, i.e. can be hard to work with and not much community support).
If you don't care about that and want to DIY, get a case with room for expansion and start picking parts. If you want redundancy, get 2x6tb or bigger (because you'll immediately start filling it) and set them in a RAID or zfs mirror. That way if one drive dies you can limp along with the other until the replacement comes in.
I always recommend not hosting internet-facing services yourself if you can avoid it, because it presents an opportunity for compromise. I self-host a lot of things, but my personal site is on a Namecheap shared host and my email is still Gmail.