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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] 1 points 9 months ago

Even raspberry pi 4 doesn't run on 3-4w, it's probably for the older models and zeros

Rpi4 is more like 5-6w, and 8-10w theoretically

RPI5 is 12-15w theoretically

Rpi5's power supply is actually 27w, my thinkcentre's power supply is 60w

Rpi5 has a 2.4ghz 4cores

My thinkcentre has 2.4-5ghz 8cores 16threads

Also, arm is fun, but it's a headache to selfhost a lot of stuff on it

And really, I moved from RPI hosting to x86-64, I didn't know some apps like jellyfin, or elk, or basically anything can open instantly. Even nextcloud is working pretty well

And you can put an ssd inside, or even two, or even do some soldering a put 3 ssds inside

I'm even starting on RAM which you can buy and replace