Hey! I’m trying to get into self hosting and was wondering what would be possible with a single Pi, at least until I can get more capable hardware.
The servies I’m interested in would be things like a pihole, music server, photos server, a few personal fediverse instances (mainly owncast), a small Matrix homeserver for my friends, etc, etc. Media server but that’s obviously way into the future I think.
While I don’t intend or think I can run all of this on one Pi, I just want to know how much is possible. I’m really thankful for any feedback I may get. My apologies for the noobness if I’m completely wrong about all of this.
One last thing, any recommendations on any other services I should try out as a beginner?
Edit: In hindsight, I really do I wish I asked about the ability of sharing these services with people and how that would affect the load and performance. One of my biggest goals is to have this used by family and close friends.
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No reason to transcode if you have the bandwidth I’ve found, just allow / force direct play / direct stream on all clients
Also I run RAID 1 USB HDDs and honestly they do fine with up to a few people at a time streaming
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Holy hell, thanks a ton! I think I’ll give it a shot then, but also look around a bit and see what else is available. This gets around the 100 dollar range when you factor in a case and some cables. Luckily I have quite a few spare ethernet cords laying around.
You can find a nice pi 4 bundle on ebay for ~100 USD instead of buying a marked up new one. I got a 4GB pi 4B, decent size SD card, and a case with a fan for $90 IIRC.
Also, Linus Tech Tips recently did a video on pi alternatives. There’s a bunch now that pi’s have gotten so popular.