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.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 year ago

    Consider some of the Pi alternatives that have a bit more horsepower. I’ve been out of the loop for a bit, but I had a lot of success with NanoPi Neo’s and the Rock64. The Neos are so cheap that I ended up getting 8 of them and deploying my services across them with docker swarm.

    Plex and jellyfin ran just fine on the Rock64 I used, but it started to struggle when my library got big. These devices can only really handle one transcode at a time too, that is if you can get HW acceleration to work.

    Nextcloud was slow, but also ran good enough. Pydio is a good alternative for general storage and is much faster than nextcloud if you don’t need all the groupware stuff.

    Never tried Fediverse apps on them but they will take up a lot of space and memory, the Pi’s might not be able to keep up.

    Checkout the awesome-selfhosted list for some links on all the software you can try. Most will have docker containers to make setup and testing easy.