this is advice I hear very often, but where do you buy second hand enterprise hardware?
I went and bought mine second hand from the internet but ive got no idea where to get enterprise stuff
I got an old Dell PowerEdge 610 server second hand on gumtree.com.au (classified ads page, I guess like craigslist or something?) for $400. The guy selling it had bought it for his home theater without realising that commercial servers are (a) noisy as hell, and (b) useless for graphics. :P It's been running our half-dozen server VMs at work for the past 3 years and it still blows my mind that you can get a server with 12 CPU cores and 96GB of RAM for that price.
Edit: 610, not 670, sorry. It basically sits in a corner making a faint whirring sound and apart from occasional apt-get upgrades I tend to forget it exists.
If you're in a major city, look for salvage outlets. There are usually operations who recover decommissioned hardware from businesses, and then thrift-store style, sell it to hobbyists.
Edit: 610, not 670, sorry. It basically sits in a corner making a faint whirring sound and apart from occasional apt-get upgrades I tend to forget it exists.