With all this migration i’ve been inspired to start self hosting some services.

I am looking for a mini pc to ideally run linux and host a media server with radarr and sonarr, pihole and some other stuff as i start getting more into self hosting.

Any recommendations / experiences that you can give? Or some general guidelines on what i should look for or things to avoid.

Thank you!!

  • animistEnglish
    14•1 year ago

    I use a headless Raspberry Pi 4 connected via USB to an external 2TB SSD and host

    • Nextcloud
    • Pihole w/Unbound
    • Transmission
    • Jellyfin
    • Webmin
    • Apache webserver with a personal static webpage
    • Soon to host my own Lemmy instance

    If you go this route I would recommend using pimylifeup.com for guides.

    • khiOPEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      A colleague at work said he was running a Raspberry Pi but in the end had to move to a more powerful system because he needed more power. AFAIK he’s use case is lighter than what i plan so i thought it wasn’t a viable solution. What you describe sounds very nice, especially because of the price of the Pi.

      Would love to hear more people’s experiences with this setup.

      • Faceman🇦🇺English
        5•1 year ago

        While PI prices are starting to come back down to earth, they are still heavily inflated if you want enough RAM. then you usually want to add the cost of an enclosure and SD card, power supply, HDMI adaptor if you need a screen etc.etc.

        I got an intel N95 powered miniPC with 8gb ram and 128gb ssd for less than the current going rate of a PI4 8GB, so sometimes they aren’t the best option. great little chip

        I’ll be replacing a pi4 and 2 pi3’s with that little guy.