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Can a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB of RAM handle my needs? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently bought a domain from Porkbun (thanks to all of the comments on this post!) and I want to self-host some services myself. I currently have a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and I'm not quite sure if it can handle these things:

A matrix homeserver
A lemmy instance
A website with static HTML pages
Privacy-respecting frontends (Piped, Redlib etc.)

I am thinking about getting a maxed-out Raspberry Pi 5 with a whole 8 Gigabytes of RAM. Is it worth it? I need a machine that is quiet, doesn't draw that much power and is overall pretty good for the money.

Edit: I bought this Mini PC instead of the Raspberry Pi 5. Thanks to all the comments!!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (10 children)

I've noticed the same thing. Every Intel N100-based machine costs ~200€ on Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (9 children)

I got a Dell Optiplex for £68 on eBay to replace my pi4b Home Assistant.

It's running Home Assistant plus a Windows machine Arr stack with Plex and transcoding, a music server, a NAS storage and Adguard at the moment and I still have ram to spare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How does your music server work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Logitech Media Server aka Squeezebox. It works mostly on plugins. The server runs on almost anything and connects to a client software on a pi in my bedroom and 3 Google Home Minis I have dotted around my house.

It's a work in progress at the moment. I have it connected to YouTube and Spotify but I'm working on pulling all the music off my old iPod I have in the car, sorting it from the mess Apple made of the files and putting them on my NAS.

Last night I was trying to get LMS to see that music. But alas I couldn't work out how to mount a Samba share to the container so today I'm gonna be trying FTP instead.

LMS is great but it takes a lot of tinkering to customise to what you want.

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