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good alternatives to raspberry pi which are cheap and efficient? (monyet.cc)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Hello , dear lemmy users , I am starting to really like self-host because they are really fast and mostly i use open source stuff (like lemmy /photon etc) which were sometimes slow but after self hosting it now on the pc i am on using , i really like it

Now , I would like to host some stuff like jellyfin , navindrome , photon , adgaurd home and just leave it running on a device in maybe near future (i can convince my brother to pay for it , after he gets his job maybe)

TLDR : I wanted to ask What's your favourite alternative to raspberry pi for simple self hosting or maybe possible near home automation

Edit: thank you all for helping me , I am starting to believe that i should look into using dell wyse or the likes which are meant to be used for hosting or a old laptop (since i dont own a laptop anyway , i just own a pc ) and since i run linux anyways , i am thinking of owning a laptop dual booting it with alpine (that has docker) and a simple minimalist os like hyprland on it just in case i need to travel with it (which to me seems very unlikely , I dont travel much so..) I am confused about it

Edit 2 : I am very new to self hosting so currently i would run stuff on my pc only (using portainer) , However when needed to buy , i am thinking of buying the cheapest thin client maybe a nuc or dell wyse

I am already trying searxng , shiori(bookmark manager) , portainer,freshrss , photon , froodle-s pdf tool which i have all closed except portainer currently I am also thinking of shifting to podman as well but cant find a good gui for it like portainer , (portainer really just blew my mind with its templates)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What you are after is basically a server. Your next logical step if Pi is not enough - Intel NUC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

intel is out of the nuc business.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But you can still get a bunch of good ones on the second hand markets. Also, NUCs are still a thing. Intel deemed the formfactor mature enough too pull out themselves and leave it too the partners to develop further.

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

Asus took it over.

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

Another option is the Dell Optiplex micro. It's got a Core processor and is about the size of a couple Bluray cases stacked on top of each other. I believe they run about 10-15W under a light load too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, Intel would not make them anymore, but it doesn't mean there would not be no NUC-alike computers on the market. There are loads of them already, so no issues.