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Looking for low power devices for selfhosting (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi friends. I'm a newbie in self-hosting, though I've been managing (virtual) linux servers at work for a couple of years. I'm completely ignorant on the hardware choices out there, hopefully you can point me to the right direction.

Here are my requisites:

Low power consumption, I plan to have it connected 24/7 and I'm kinda concerned on how much it will impact the electricity bill
Ethernet port, preferably gigabit but whatever
Graphical performance is not important as I don't plan to connect it to any display. As long as I can ssh into it, I'm good.

Services I plan on installing, for starters:

casaOS
pi-hole, or equivalent
Home Assistant
Kitchen Owl (nice to have)
Paperless-ngx (nice to have)

I live in europe and my budget is around 80 euros or so. Thanks in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Raspberry Pi was my first choice, but apparently I can't even back order it :/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Alternatively, there are also some options from pine64.com, maybe scroll through there! Same for odroid.nl

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Shout out for ODROID, their product revision cycles take too long (lmao why are they still selling a 32-bit chip that was an iffy investment back in 2013), but when they drop new stuff, it tends to be great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That reminds me, I do own a pine64 device! It was the first thing I got on Kickstarter.

It's a Pine A64, with 2gb RAM. I wonder if it has enough power to run all those things. It's a budget device from 8 years ago, probably gonna have a hard time but I'll give it a try if I manage to find it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Very nice! I am running an HC4 (I think; the toaster) now since last month and so far, it's running much better than I thought! So yes, check that one first, then see if you have to upgrade and if you do, go for aarch64 or traditional x64 but not 32 bit arm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

If it’s been a while since you checked, it’s worth checking again. RPi has been becoming more available over the last month or two, and I was able to get one of the new RPi 5!

Someone put together a great locator tool

https://rpilocator.com/