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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!!
@AlexPewMaster@lemmy.zip I'm in your situation. At the moment on my RPI 5 I'm hosting (via docker) the followings:
For the sake of clarity, here is my docker ps -a | wc -l
Almost everything is behind a reverse proxy (on another machine, a rpi4 with KVM) with an argo tunnel. And again
So if the question is "Is it enough a RPI 5"? The answer is yes, it is enough (at least for moderate traffic OFC). If the question is "I have to buy hardware: is a RPI 5 the best choice?" the answer may vary depending on many things. As you've been told, if GPIO is not a problem, maybe a minipc is better.