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.

  • keyEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Pihole it of course can do. I wouldn’t especially recommend doing much of anything else with the pi you use for your DNS. Reason being that you don’t want your internet to start lagging because the pi is being overloaded by something else. I know if I disconnect my pihole the impact on internet speed is significant.

    Servings up files should be fine (but check USB and ethernet speed), I wouldn’t use a pi as my goto for streaming media though (that said I haven’t tried it). I’d be skeptical about federated services as the amount of traffic and therefore processing can increase a lot once you connect to more instances so you could find it works fine for the first days but then gets more and more overloaded. Turn off federation and it would run fine but then what’s the point? But I’ve only tried hosting lemmy, I don’t know how others compare.

    • clifEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      For sure. My old pi v2 became a PiHole when I moved on to later versions and it’s just been quietly doing it’s thing for … I don’t know, 6 years now?

    • ShinOPEnglish
      0•1 year ago

      Would it be better to get a Pi Zero for Pi Hole instead if that’s the case? Thanks a ton for the info!