There are a lot of reasons not to give them your money. They’re assholes to the maker community and they openly talk shit on a lot of their customer base. That’s beside the point, though, really.
It’s just not a spectacular option for hosting. In order to get a Rpi competitive with even the shittiest laptop from 7 years ago, you’re going to end up spending more than you would spend on a decent laptop from 7 years ago.
If it is a computer that turns on, it will likely function orders of magnitude better than an Rpi and won’t bind you to ARM architecture. My entire hosting setup was pulled out of a recycling pile for free. Install ubuntu/ubuntu server and enjoy yourself.
If you intend on spending any amount of money on this hobby, I cannot express enough how much I recommend against any of that money going toward a Raspberry Pi.
EDIT: A lot of you seem to be reading this as “Raspberry Pis are all nonfunctional” and getting mad about it. Don’t do that.
Edit 2: Good to see that all the stupid parts of reddit made it here
That is a whole lot of text just to say “Rpi bad” – its (still) the best single board computer for both performance and low power draw.
Is it the best one? That’s a big claim with no evidence.
There is no evidence for the same reason that I don’t need to explain why “fire is hot” – everyone who used the internet for at least 5 minutes in their entire lifespan knows this.
As an engineer who has worked for a LONG time with both SBCs and other computers, that’s a stupid thing to say
My daddy works at Microsoft and he disagrees with your baseless counter-“argument”. :^)
ok