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could you be able to self host on a raspberry pi (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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Would you be able to host instances for stuff like mastodon and peertube on a raspberry pi more specifically the raspberry pi 5

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Yes. The Lemmy instance I’m commenting from is running on a Raspberry Pi 4. A couple things you’ll need to consider though:

Any containers / applications you run need to be compiled for arm64. This is way more common now than it used to be, but there are still some things that only work on x86 (like many game servers)
You should hook up external storage to your Pi. You can boot from an SSD via USB 3 and you’ll get way better performance, capacity, and write endurance than an SD card.
RAM will likely be your first limitation. Many services can run well under 4GB, but once you start adding more, it can fill up if you’re not careful.
You probably already knew this, but even though the Pi has WiFi, plug it into the network via Ethernet. As a rule, you should never run servers off WiFi if you can avoid it. You’ll get much better speeds and reliability.