I’m wanting to run my own SimpleX chat server and set up a Monero node as well.
Can this be done on the same machine? I was considering getting a mini PC to do this so it wouldn’t be too much of an issue with it being always on.
Or should I take a different approach and set up both separately on two different machines like a raspberry pi or something?
As I’m sure you can tell I don’t have a lot of experience with self hosting anything but want to get into it to help strengthen the networks of these communities I care about.
I would recommend buying an ugly corporate desktop PC on EBay or similar. When companies do mass layoffs, or move offices, they often deem it cheaper to just sell off everyone’s workstation wiped on EBay or whatever. You can get a SOLID Intel workhorse of some sort for probably literally less than a Pi. Yes, it will use more power, but like, you’re planning to run multiple services on this and a desktop PC is often surprisingly upgradeable, even with shitty office towers, because the high end and low end model use the same motherboard, so you have plenty of room to upgrade non-processor components. You can probably find a great no OS included box for like $200 tops shipping included, if not half that.
This is how I got started. I found a decent refurbed Optiplex.
Yep, I’ve got a stack of 5-10 year old optiplexes (optiplexi?) running proxmox.