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RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting (lemmy.mohammadodeh.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Here is the thing, I have 4 RPi’s of different generations (all the way from Zero W to 4B 4GB) that I use to host services at home for personal use.

Lately, I have realized I am running out of RAM to host more services, not to mention not enough switch ports to connect to.

Now I know the obvious solution is to get a more powerful setup (maybe a thin client) but electricity isn’t cheap and I am not particularly in the best shape financially speaking to shell out $300+ on a decent client to host my services.

Any suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I had budget to try xeon d soc motherboard for a smal itx case. Put 64gb ecc ram into it but could hold 128gb. That server will be 8 yo this year. That particular supermicro mb was ment for some oem routerlike 64_86x with 10g ports and remote management. I'm not sure if intel or amd have any cpus in that segment anymore, but it's very light on wattage if mostly idle/maintaining vms.

One option I'm looking at is to get a dedicated hetzner server, even the auction and lowest grade 'new' offerings are pretty good for the price if you account for energy costs and upfront gear cost.