Howdy All! I've been self hosting some services on a pi 4 for a year or two now and have been fiddling with new services lately. I realized I'm pushing 60% or so of RAM and maxing out the SWAP file while fiddling with things. I currently just set up a nightly reboot as a temporary solution but I'm thinking about picking up a mini PC of some sort to replace it with, and wanted to get input from the community (Read: people smarter than me haha.)
I'm happy to hear any preferences anyone would care to share on hardware. I know obviously more RAM is key, as far as I'm aware CPU isn't super important and any recent-ish box will probably have a fine enough processor in it, and of course I'll probably end up getting a bigger external drive to hook up to it but that's not a big deal.
Also, I'm currently running docker/portainer on an OMV core, just how I learned/got into self hosting. Should I take the opportunity to learn Kubernetes or some other big boy system? I've not done alot of reading into it but I know clusters are gaining steam these days even for self hosting, would that be valuable to learn more about as a hobbyist/enthusiast/whatever? I'm fairly competent and used to have some CompTIA certs but as such I know better than to unnecessarily complicate my life lol. It sounds cool but I don't see a use case in my personal usage.
Thank y'all for your time and knowledge!
I'm currently running:
Baikal,
Bookstack,
Bitwarden,
Duplicati,
Filebrowser,
freshrss ,
Linkwarden,
Apache,
Navidrome,
nginx,
portainer,
rpi-monitor,
searxng,
stirlingpdf,
syncthing,
watchtower,
I'm considering:
Nextcloud,
Maybe a game server or two depending on the needs?,
Whatever else seems interesting, I guess :P
It's pretty dummy friendly. Accept that some things may not work or will work differently (Most notably tap to pay is a no go AFAIK,) and be willing to learn if something comes up would probably be how I describe it. The only problem that might turn up that an app that you need doesn't pass gOS' security checks, but there's an app level setting to lessen security restrictions if it's something you NEED.
Otherwise, meh? Flashing back to stock is super easy via a google web tool if you don't like it. (I had to for a trip, Ticketmaster was being wonky and all my shows were ticketmaster haha. I've never had a problem before with the Ticketmaster app so IDK if it's an ongoing thing or not)