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I'm a complete selfhosting beginner. How much is feasible on a single Pi 4B (4 GB RAM)? (self.selfhosted)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by shinnoodles to c/selfhosted
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Hey! I'm trying to get into self hosting and was wondering what would be possible with a single Pi, at least until I can get more capable hardware.

The servies I'm interested in would be things like a pihole, music server, photos server, a few personal fediverse instances (mainly owncast), a small Matrix homeserver for my friends, etc, etc. Media server but that's obviously way into the future I think.

While I don't intend or think I can run all of this on one Pi, I just want to know how much is possible. I'm really thankful for any feedback I may get. My apologies for the noobness if I'm completely wrong about all of this.

One last thing, any recommendations on any other services I should try out as a beginner?

Edit: In hindsight, I really do I wish I asked about the ability of sharing these services with people and how that would affect the load and performance. One of my biggest goals is to have this used by family and close friends.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

All this:

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How do you ensure that your data (files, photos) is backed up when using Nextcloud? I'm very paranoid having all my files lost due to a drive failing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

With YunoHost you have built-in backup system, works pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But where do you store that backup? Is it on your own drives or do you use some cloud storage medium?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You have a lot of options: https://yunohost.org/en/backup

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Restic/Kopia/Borg are popular backup tools, set up a backup to another local drive, and also to online storage somewhere such as Wasabi S3, or Backblaze B2.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So can I just use a RPi that's connected to 1-2 external HDDs/SSDs and use them as backup drives? Would I have to run them in a RAID configuration or something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yep, you don't need to use RAID unless you want to.