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RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting (lemmy.mohammadodeh.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I‘d just get an old computer. My server runs my whole homelab with 4 spinning disks, 2 ssds while having 10+ services. It takes 50 watts since it is pretty old but it works well. If I turned off the spinning disks it might be even lower.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It takes 50 watts since it is pretty old

I bet most of the power is used by spinning disks. My setup (diy desktop) used 22W with 3 SSDs, but after replacing one SSD with 3.5" HDD it went up to 35W

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Jeez! Thats quite a lot! Thanks for mentioning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How do you monitor your wattage?