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.

  • DaseinPickle@leminal.spaceEnglish
    181·
    2 years ago

    Why not get an Intel N100? It’s about the same price and much better performance. Raspberry Pis is kind of overpriced these days.

    • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.comEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

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

        • LifeBandit666@feddit.ukEnglish
          11·
          2 years 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.

      • lemmyingly@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        2 years 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.

        • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.comEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          Just bought one a month ago. RPi5 was $80 (8gb ram, $60 for 4gb), case with fan was $5 and USB-C PD supply was $10.

          Lowest n100 I see is $150. Still, they do look more beefy and probably worth it for some.

          • lemmyingly@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            A case for $5 is a good find unless you found literally the cheapest thing you could find. For a half decent case I’d expect $10-20, and more if you want something fancy.

            What are you doing for storage?

      • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        You probably could. Though I don’t see the point in powering a home server over PoE.

        A random SBC in the closet? WAP? Sure. Not a home server though.

    • AlexPewMaster@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’ve never heard of Intel N100 before, what’s that? Just so you know, a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 Gigabytes of RAM costs ~90€ in my country (Germany). I wouldn’t really count that as overpriced. Could you show me some machine examples with Intel N100?