Andriy Z.

Andriy Z. is the founder of XP Bargain. He builds and runs his own homelab and writes the guides and comparisons here, focused on power-efficient home server hardware: UPS battery backups, NAS storage, mini PCs, and networking gear. His background is in QA automation engineering and in Edge/IoT and cloud (AWS/Azure) systems — work that depends on hardware staying online and running efficiently, which is where his interest in low-power, always-on home servers began. He favors measured, practical advice: real power draw, real runtime, and what actually matters for a reliable homelab over spec-sheet hype.