Here is the thing, I have 4 RPi’s of different generations (all the way from Zero W to 4B 4GB) that I use to host services at home for personal use.

Lately, I have realized I am running out of RAM to host more services, not to mention not enough switch ports to connect to.

Now I know the obvious solution is to get a more powerful setup (maybe a thin client) but electricity isn’t cheap and I am not particularly in the best shape financially speaking to shell out $300+ on a decent client to host my services.

Any suggestions?

  • @Gooey0210English
    1•5 months ago

    Even raspberry pi 4 doesn’t run on 3-4w, it’s probably for the older models and zeros

    Rpi4 is more like 5-6w, and 8-10w theoretically

    RPI5 is 12-15w theoretically

    Rpi5’s power supply is actually 27w, my thinkcentre’s power supply is 60w

    Rpi5 has a 2.4ghz 4cores

    My thinkcentre has 2.4-5ghz 8cores 16threads

    Also, arm is fun, but it’s a headache to selfhost a lot of stuff on it

    And really, I moved from RPI hosting to x86-64, I didn’t know some apps like jellyfin, or elk, or basically anything can open instantly. Even nextcloud is working pretty well

    And you can put an ssd inside, or even two, or even do some soldering a put 3 ssds inside

    I’m even starting on RAM which you can buy and replace