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[UPDATE] RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] admin@lemmy.mohammadodeh.com 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The setup seems quite beefy relative to anything I ever owned. I understand that my power bill will be more costly if I leave this running 24/7.

Compared to 4 RPi’s running 24/7, how much more energy do you suppose I’ll be expending?

I ask because my basic understanding of electrical engineering states that my system will only draw as much power as it needs (not the full rated 650W), so I’m not really sure how that compares to all 4 RPi’s running.

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[UPDATE] RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting (lemmy.mohammadodeh.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by admin@lemmy.mohammadodeh.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello everyone, I posted a couple of days asking for some advice on alternatives to RPi’s for self-hosting.

I guess I got VERY lucky and managed to buy the following setup from a surplus website for cheap (~$300). Here is the setup:

MOBO:

MSI B550 Gaming Plus

CPU:

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 4th Gen (8-Core, 16-Threads, unlocked)

GPU:

NVIDIA GeoForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GDDR6

RAM:

24GB (weird number but okay). They are all Corsair brand, not sure about the bandwidth and timing on them, haven’t had the chance to play around with them yet.

Storage:

512GB Samsung SSD

PSU:

650W (again, haven’t gotten to dig into the gritty-nitty details)

So far, on my random RPi’s, I have PiHole+Unbound, Homebridge, Wireguard server (will probably keep those three on a dedicated RPi), SearXNG, Paperless-NGX, Lemmy (duh), Nextcloud, Uptime Kuma, Plex (+Debrid) Server, Jackett, and a couple of other services I can’t really recall of the top of my head.

What and how would you recommend I set up my newest acquisition to host my services? Any specific OS to run to best handle all of this efficiently and with ease? It already came with Windows 10 pre-installed (and I’d like to keep it because my Ph.D. research uses many programs only available on Windows, SMH)

RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] admin@lemmy.mohammadodeh.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Thank you for your insight, I see your point.

Why do you say they abandoned desktop computers though? Aren’t they still designing and selling iMacs? Aren’t those considered desktop computers?

RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] admin@lemmy.mohammadodeh.com 2 points 9 months ago

That is a great explanation. It makes perfect sense to me know. Thank you

RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] admin@lemmy.mohammadodeh.com 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Can you please explain to me the difference? How does a swapdisk compare to RAM? I don’t mind googling it but I highly doubt I’ll get a straightforward ELI5 style answer from there.

I would really appreciate it if you can elaborate, if you have the time that is.

Thank you.

RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] admin@lemmy.mohammadodeh.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How do you monitor your wattage?

RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] admin@lemmy.mohammadodeh.com 1 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Doesn’t swap reduce the lifespan of storage though?

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RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] admin@lemmy.mohammadodeh.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Most of my services use a network mounted drive so storage isn’t really a factor (although the more the merrier of course).

My main bottleneck is computation power.

RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] admin@lemmy.mohammadodeh.com 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Just curious, why is an x86 architecture a sought after feature in your opinion? My understanding is that ARM is more “bang for your buck” in terms of computation effort to power draw.

I say this because my M2 (ARM based) MacBook does all sorts of heavy lifting and still lasts me more than a day on a single charge compared to my old Intel MacBook running the same services doing the exact same stuff.

Please correct me if I am wrong. I would really appreciate to learn more from people who have more knowledge than I am.

RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] admin@lemmy.mohammadodeh.com 1 points 9 months ago

Valid point, I see where you are coming from.

RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] admin@lemmy.mohammadodeh.com 1 points 9 months ago

Bruh, I love you.

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RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting (lemmy.mohammadodeh.com)
 

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?

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New Generation OpenWRT Compatible Router (lemmy.mohammadodeh.com)
 

Hello everyone,

My current router from 2014 is starting to give up and I am searching for a new one to replace it. I have 3 criteria that I would like for my replacement to have:

  1. Be relatively new

  2. Less than a $150 USD

  3. Have enough power to run a network-wide VPN (my old router would max the CPU when running Wireguard and my speeds were very abysmal)

So far, I have found 3 routers that I am thinking of; Dynalink DL-WRX36, Linksys E8451, and Belkin RT3200. Truth be told, I am gravitating towards the Dynalink because it is the best overall for the price point it’s on.

I am hosting nextCloud, Lemmy, a plex_debrid serverc SearXNG, and so many more so I need hardware that is able to at least theoretically match my 1Gbps from my ISP over Wireguard with more computational power left over.

Your advice would be very appreciated.

Thank you.

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