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If you want to host something on a Raspberry Pi, you should consider using literally any other piece of hardware (toad.work)

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

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There are a lot of reasons not to give them your money. They're assholes to the maker community and they openly talk shit on a lot of their customer base. That's beside the point, though, really.

It's just not a spectacular option for hosting. In order to get a Rpi competitive with even the shittiest laptop from 7 years ago, you're going to end up spending more than you would spend on a decent laptop from 7 years ago.

If it is a computer that turns on, it will likely function orders of magnitude better than an Rpi and won't bind you to ARM architecture. My entire hosting setup was pulled out of a recycling pile for free. Install ubuntu/ubuntu server and enjoy yourself.

If you intend on spending any amount of money on this hobby, I cannot express enough how much I recommend against any of that money going toward a Raspberry Pi.

EDIT: A lot of you seem to be reading this as "Raspberry Pis are all nonfunctional" and getting mad about it. Don't do that.

Edit 2: Good to see that all the stupid parts of reddit made it here

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

Are other single board computers like OragnePI or Libre Computer any better?

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

@MarioBarisa
Not...overly? Many can't run a mainline kernel. Most have lackluster performance.

If you already have one, it's meeting your needs, and you're not bothered with the flash storage failing, carry on. But you really are better off scrounging a junk laptop/workstation in most other cases.

That said, I've also had that bite me. Some of those are junked for a reason and they can be flaky. Availability can differ in your area. 🤷‍♂️ Use what works for you.

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

I love little ARM SBCs but my self-hosting journey accelerated drastically when I gave in and started using 8yo x86 hardware instead.

A couple rounds of upgrades later and I can also see how much more compute/$ one gets out of x86 as well. Even relatively recent PC hadware is absolutely dirt cheap used.

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

I have an Optiplex 7050 SFF that I dumped a few hundred dollars worth of upgrades into for shits and giggles when I ran it as my daily driver; then I built a beastly Ryzen system to daily and shunted the Optiplex over to server duties, replacing the previous server (14 year-old HP Elitedesk 8100 SFF).

The Optiplex runs everything I can throw at it with ease, far better than the HP could have ever hoped to do.

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

haha, all 3 x86 servers I started with are OptiPlex SFF. Commodity business PCs for the win.

I've since upgraded two of them to even smaller 1L USFF PCs (one Dell one HP) and the beastliest OptiPlex SFF (i7-4770) is now my database server and NAS box. All of them run Proxmox.

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

I will argue from experience that Homeassistant runs pretty damn good on a pi using an SSD. They have an image specifically for HA as well.

[–] AbidanYre 0 points 1 year ago

Anytime I start with a Pi, I end up getting frustrated with the performance and just virtualize it on x86.

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

🤓🤓🤓

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