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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I think any mini-pc/old laptop is better, and probably cheaper than a raspberry pi nowadays

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I would have disagreed with you when Pis were like $50 and chaining 3 Pis together with a hard drive was a fun project to do self hosting.

    Now to get to the beefiest raspberry pi, it's $120. And in the range, yeah, for price and reliability, use a mini-pc/laptop.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think the pi zero might have a place, don't have one but at least it is actually cheap. Used an old laptop before, now running stuff on my PC which I feel was a bit of a mistake in a way but it started as one process and more appeared over time.

    At some point would like to move it into a VM tbh, then I could copy the VM to a mini PC at a later date. Or easily copy it when reinstalling the OS on my main PC. VM for convenience and separating it from my general PC usage.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yeah honestly i can't get anything done with a raspberry. Maybe i host too many services ?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Honestly Raspberry Pis are pretty underpowered as hosts for more than a handful of super basic services, and given they consume 20-30w at minimum you're easily getting into used office desktop territory where you can get a ton more performance right out of the gate.

    The real value in the raspberry pi is in the GPIO and the cohesive ecosystem of accessories to plug into said GPIO. You can do so many cool automations and controls using just an RPi (especially if combined with something that can't be accomplished more cheaply and easily with an ESP32) but as a server host they're pretty crap in comparison to a decade old business PC off of eBay

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