I recently bought a domain from Porkbun (thanks to all of the comments on this post!) and I want to self-host some services myself. I currently have a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and I’m not quite sure if it can handle these things:

  • A matrix homeserver
  • A lemmy instance
  • A website with static HTML pages
  • Privacy-respecting frontends (Piped, Redlib etc.)

I am thinking about getting a maxed-out Raspberry Pi 5 with a whole 8 Gigabytes of RAM. Is it worth it? I need a machine that is quiet, doesn’t draw that much power and is overall pretty good for the money.

Edit: I bought this Mini PC instead of the Raspberry Pi 5. Thanks to all the comments!!

  • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.comEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Just looked them up, and found products 2x my Pi 5. Maybe there are sales out there?

      • LifeBandit666@feddit.ukEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I got a Dell Optiplex for £68 on eBay to replace my pi4b Home Assistant.

        It’s running Home Assistant plus a Windows machine Arr stack with Plex and transcoding, a music server, a NAS storage and Adguard at the moment and I still have ram to spare.

            • ShepherdPie@midwest.socialEnglish
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              7 months ago

              Ah bummer. I’ve been wanting to retire my mid tower in favor of one of the Optiplex micros that I have but wanted something that could hold the 9 HDDs currently inside of it that wasnt a $1300 NAS but haven’t found a good solution.

                • ShepherdPie@midwest.socialEnglish
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                  7 months ago

                  Unfortunately I’d need some sort of backplane with it to connect it to the micro PC. I have looked at DAS options but they seem pretty uncommon and mostly relegated to no-name Chinese manufacturers on Amazon which seems risky due to questionable quality.

                  • LifeBandit666@feddit.ukEnglish
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                    6 months ago

                    I’m not sure what a backplane is, but my HDDs are connected via usb3 cables with power chords. I’m sure there’s speed constraints but it’s what I’ve done.

    • lemmyingly@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 months ago

      RPi5, plus a PSU, plus a storage device, plus any extra cooling, plus a case ends up about the same as an N100 without anything extra. For the extra $10 or so, the N100 ends up being the better buy.