New Jellyfin Server Hardware Recommendations

[TheDreadPirate]

The only criticism I have is your RAM. I'd get 32GB so you have room to grow as your knowledge and ambitions grow.

1. Reusing hardware is perfectly acceptable. Almost half of the parts in my Jellyfin server have been part of at least one other computer.
2. Consider getting an older Intel CPU? Like a 12th Gen CPU. They're cheaper, the motherboards MIGHT be cheaper, the CPUs are still fast, they have the same GPU so the same codec support, and they won't burn themselves out! And they use cheaper DDR4.
3. Linux, in general, but especially server versions of every distro, will not restart unless you tell them to. Including for updates. They will still auto-update, if configured to do so, but I have servers at work that have uptimes of over a year. At past jobs a couple servers made it to over 1000 days up time.
4. Can't answer this one.
5. As long as their are not on the other side of the world, this shouldn't be a problem.