Raspberry Pi alternatives for headless self hosted applications (kbin.social)

submitted 3 years ago by SirPsychoMantis@kbin.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Since rpis have been almost impossible to find, I've been looking around for alternatives for some local self hosted services like home assistant. A lot of boards seem to talk about GPU, GPIO pins, etc. But I really just want a single board, fanless (low power), decent CPU and RAM, ethernet.

Any recommendations?

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[-] Skeletor@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Hi SirPyschoMantis,

I'm certainly no expert but just recently started a similar project you are describing. I went with a used HP ProDesk 400 G2 mini. It has a i5-6500t, 8GB and 250GB ssd.

I run Ubuntu server on it with docker. It's compact and capable of running a bit more then a Raspberry Pi I believe.

When searching for a Pi alternative I also came across a similar mini pc from Dell. Thats was a Dell OptiPlex 3040 SFF.

I'm from the Netherlands and used prices here were around 100-150 €.

[-] xyguy@startrek.website 1 points 3 years ago

Second this, but don't go for the dell minis. I have had trouble with them no recognizing 3rd party power supplies that are often shipped with refurb units.

I've had good luck with the lenovo tiny PCs.

this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023

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