Best hardware for installing HA?

[hijinx (James)]

+1 for Ubuntu server.
I am running an Ubuntu server minimal install VM dedicated to hassio.
This is on ESXi hypervisor on the Xeon version of the cheapo dell T20 server.

@MarkR - actually you make be surprised how simple hassio is.
There is a good discussion of hassio on ubuntu here including input on a minimal ubuntu deployment:

Hass.io running on docker/ubuntu on VM vs standalone hass running on docker on Ubuntu on VM

Hey all I currently have HASS running on docker on an Ubuntu VM. I also have a few HA companion docker containers running - e.g. dasher for amazon dash buttons. I need to do a bit of admin work to increase disk space on the VM, so I came to think maybe I will be better served to spin up a new VM and install hass.io (in parallel to my existing HA, initially ) I saw the custom install procedure, and looks fairly straightforward. Then I saw this warning: When you use this inst…

If you have docker on ubuntu then you have huge flexibility to deploy other things that are not yet supported as hassio addons (plex, pihole, openVPN etc etc)