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Looking for low power devices for selfhosting (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pathief to c/selfhosted

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Hi friends. I'm a newbie in self-hosting, though I've been managing (virtual) linux servers at work for a couple of years. I'm completely ignorant on the hardware choices out there, hopefully you can point me to the right direction.

Here are my requisites:

Low power consumption, I plan to have it connected 24/7 and I'm kinda concerned on how much it will impact the electricity bill
Ethernet port, preferably gigabit but whatever
Graphical performance is not important as I don't plan to connect it to any display. As long as I can ssh into it, I'm good.

Services I plan on installing, for starters:

casaOS
pi-hole, or equivalent
Home Assistant
Kitchen Owl (nice to have)
Paperless-ngx (nice to have)

I live in europe and my budget is around 80 euros or so. Thanks in advance!

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[–] Crispy_Mate 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pi Zero could be underpowered but the bigger pi's sound like a perfect match. I would recommend looking into a used pi 3 or 4, because the pi 5 is new and always out of stock (at least in europe) so you pay around 150$.

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

Libre Computer "Le Potatoe" is a inexpensive solid performing SBC.