RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting (lemmy.mohammadodeh.com)

submitted 9 months ago by admin@lemmy.mohammadodeh.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

66 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Here is the thing, I have 4 RPi’s of different generations (all the way from Zero W to 4B 4GB) that I use to host services at home for personal use.

Lately, I have realized I am running out of RAM to host more services, not to mention not enough switch ports to connect to.

Now I know the obvious solution is to get a more powerful setup (maybe a thin client) but electricity isn’t cheap and I am not particularly in the best shape financially speaking to shell out $300+ on a decent client to host my services.

Any suggestions?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Get a mini pc. If you can find a cheap intel NUC on ebay for example. Way more power in a compact form that doesn't draw that much more power than a rpi.. much less four of them.

[-] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Or even a thinkcentre, I got mine for less than $300 with 36gb ram, 1tb nvme ssd, and es i9

It was even closer to $200, and I had a plan to make a cluster out of these, but one this thing is powerful enough to do like anything, so I dropped the idea

Edit: also, about the power consumption, it's very similar to rpi5 and at the same time can do so much stuff

this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2024

65 points (97.1% liked)

Selfhosted

40415 readers

231 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
No spam posting.
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
No trolling.

Resources:

selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
awesome-selfhosted software
awesome-sysadmin resources
Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world

HybridSarcasm@lemmy.hybridsarcasm.xyz