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If you want to host something on a Raspberry Pi, you should consider using literally any other piece of hardware (toad.work)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are a lot of reasons not to give them your money. They're assholes to the maker community and they openly talk shit on a lot of their customer base. That's beside the point, though, really.

It's just not a spectacular option for hosting. In order to get a Rpi competitive with even the shittiest laptop from 7 years ago, you're going to end up spending more than you would spend on a decent laptop from 7 years ago.

If it is a computer that turns on, it will likely function orders of magnitude better than an Rpi and won't bind you to ARM architecture. My entire hosting setup was pulled out of a recycling pile for free. Install ubuntu/ubuntu server and enjoy yourself.

If you intend on spending any amount of money on this hobby, I cannot express enough how much I recommend against any of that money going toward a Raspberry Pi.

EDIT: A lot of you seem to be reading this as "Raspberry Pis are all nonfunctional" and getting mad about it. Don't do that.

Edit 2: Good to see that all the stupid parts of reddit made it here

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I recently moved off a combination of Pi 4 and an old netbook to the ODroid H3+. Orders of magnitude faster while having socketed storage and RAM. The best part is the NVME and SATA ports that let me attach 41TB of raw storage and add a data warehousing nature to my setup. 10/10 would buy again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Unless you already have it, to be honest

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

I always wanted one, but it is hard to justify since I use my NAS for everything... I'd use it a second pihole though.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I use my pi for Pi-hole and pivpn. Any other server I spin up is typically on an old laptop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Old thin clients are worth looking at as rpi replacements. I have one as a (2D) print sever, for a printer that only has windows drivers.

The only real advantage rpi has these days is the amount of stuff that's prepacked as OS images for them. Technically speaking other SBC usually have a better price/performance ratio.

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