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.

  • @markstosEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    Each project may publish minimum specs. Find what you and add them up. Fediverse instances can require several services and are the most complex thing on your list.

    • ShinOPEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Thank you! The only thing I’d want to host is Owncast upon reflection, which I probably won’t be doing until I have a better setup than I do now.

      • @markstosEnglish
        6•2 years ago

        If they don’t publish minimum specs, you can try running the services in a virtual machine on your laptop to see how much memory they use.

      • poVoqEnglish
        4•2 years ago

        Owncast is very bandwidth heavy. If your net connection doesn’t have a high upload speed you are going to have problems with it.

          • poVoq
            1•2 years ago

            Sure, but you need to send to every viewer. It’s not like with Twitch where you send once to their servers and they distribute it to the viewers.