A lot of people use NUCs or similar platforms for their labs. In this case, you have several dedicated small servers, each usually equipped with 32 GB of memory and local SSD storage.

The advantages of using small, dedicated PCs are as follows:

• They are small
• They are easy to scale by adding more servers

The disadvantages of using small, dedicated PCs are as follows:

• They are expensive
• They require additional physical network infrastructure
• You will have limited upgrade options for CPU and memory