> Why the laundry room? Two reasons: Heat and noise. Pearce’s server was initially in his bedroom, but the machine was so hot, it actually made it too uncomfortable to sleep.

This is a rite of passage and a badge of honor for homelabbers/tinkerers/hackers to discover for themselves IMHO. If you haven't tried it, you should. The heat is bad enough to warrant moving it, but add the noise too, sprinkle in a few nights of bad sleep, and it becomes an effective form of torture :-D

Just don't decide to move it to a closet unless you also install some fans in there. I ended up finding a cozy spot under the staircase which worked quite well