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

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?

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[-] Epzillon@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I'm not super into the whole sphere here. But as you mentioned the Pi I thought I might chime in. I just ordered a Pi 5, 8GB RAM and 2-3x effective speed of the Pi 4.

I'd youre looking for more powerful hardware in this format the Rockx 5 and Orange Pi 5 are alternatives that go up to 16GB RAM.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 7 months ago

Those are all arm though

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You need a minipc (you can look at the TDP for power usage)

[-] peter@feddit.uk 0 points 8 months ago

Power to performance wise a pi isn't actually that good. A thin client can run on less than 60W and offer far more performance

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