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Question: What are some alternatives to a Raspberry Pi good for a small home server? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by GreenShimada@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi all,

I want to spin up a small home server. Nothing crazy, maybe 4 or 8GB ram at most. 1 Docker instance running a few privacy frontends (Invidious, Redlib, Xcancel, SearxNG, etc.) and split tunneling VPN connections for each one.

Obviously, a Raspberry Pi 4 or higher is the internet's favorite choice, but I don't need wireless connectivity, I just need a single HDMI and 2 USB ports to get everything set up, one ethernet port, and a dream in my heart.

Has anyone use alternatives like Le Potato or Orange Pi? I'm curious what their community support is like, and if there's a FOSS-friendly standard.

Thanks!

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[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you dont need an sbc or something arm based mini pcs/thin clients/laptops work well. I run redlib, yamtrack and a monero node on hp t630 w/ 16GB ram (bought before the rampocalypse for ~ $60) and a torrent seedbox/streaming nas on wyse 3040 (~$10). Here's a great website about thin clients https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hware/hardware.shtml

[–] determinist@kbin.earth 3 points 1 month ago

I have a 16GB ram HP t630 running vaultwarden (bought for £50) and some other stuff and a HP ProDesk 400 G5 16GB ram (bought for £100) running jellyfin & immich. They're great. I also have a Wyse 3040 that I intend to run as pihole, just haven't got round to it yet.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks - I think a NUC/thin client will be how I end up going. I just didn't even think about them in terms of meeting the criteria of "small thing I can leave running and not care about." I think I still have an old laptop my partner used to use that would work, which might be my tester.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was looking at bee-link a while back, shame prices have gone through the roof on everything though.

[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah I grabbed a... Mele quieter or something back in November to replace the noisy greenpower thing I'd had for about 2 years and I got a bit more back than what I spent on it, looking at the mele tiny pc today and it's doubled in price since I got it. So far it's been nice though, passive cooling unlike the noisy fan on the other one.