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I am thinking about hosting my own Mastodon server from home on a Raspberry Pi (Pi4 8GB)? (mastodon.social)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am thinking about hosting my own Mastodon server from home on a Raspberry Pi (Pi4 8GB)?

Are there good tutorials out there?
What's the annual cost just to host yourself?

@linux @nixCraft @raspberrypi

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that'd rip your microsd in half really quick.

[+] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because it's cheaper (barely but still), smaller (fits right into the Pi and its case) and more convenient (no adapter). When one just got a Pi that might even be sold with a microSD then they'll use that.

I'm not arguing it's the right thing for data intense usage but the "why" IMHO is pretty obvious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Come on, it's a raspberry pi not an iphone. Those things are for tinkerers who live by "if it ain't broke, fix it till it is".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's for tinkerers yes but the RPi is popular because they try to facilitate the tinkering process. That means a lot of people will buy it in order to learn. That's precisely why they sell the RPi400 and RPi with introductory books.

It's not the same audience that'll by a RPi5 without a case or compute modules.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you're using a SATA SSD then you don't even need an enclosure, just a cable like this StarTech USB 3.1 one: https://a.co/d/0fBSMs7

The SSD is already in an enclosure (the case of the SSD), so placing it inside another enclosure is redundant...

NVMe SSDs aren't worth getting for the Pi 4 because it doesn't have a PCIe bus, so you'll only be getting USB speeds anyways. A SATA SSD is fine for that. Still aorund 4x faster than using an SD card.