Hetzner has VPSs and YunoHost as an option. You could do that for Uber $10/month. But, otherwise, anything used with an SSD. You'll need ddns with port forwarding and likely a reverse proxy as well.
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At that price point, something used and not particularly recent. Even an old laptop will be good performance-wise, but not necessarily storage-wise.
However, buying a laptop to run at home might not be the most reliable or economical way to host Lemmy: you can rent a virtual server for not much, provided that you have access to a computer to remotely access the server with.
I have zero experience with YunoHost, so I don't know how that may or may not limit the options. Probably the most common way is to use Lemmy-Ansible. It's easy (well, relatively speaking) and is maintained by the actual lemmy devs themselves. Managed services (ones where you don't have to deal with the server) should also exist for lemmy, but I've never used them.
I use an old Thinkpad that I got on eBay and upgraded the RAM for.
I'm ignorant in this topic, but wouldn't it be better to find some private server provider? This could last you like 4 years with some low-end gear.
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Does it need to be a laptop or could it be a refurbished Mini-Office PC like a Lenovo m710q? Because you could cut that price in half.
I just said laptop because we have no monitors or places to hook up a monitor and computer
If you are serving it to the public, a good VPS would be better.
Chances are that your internet is not as reliable as something like Hetzner's.