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Can a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB of RAM handle my needs? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by AlexPewMaster to c/[email protected]

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I recently bought a domain from Porkbun (thanks to all of the comments on this post!) and I want to self-host some services myself. I currently have a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and I'm not quite sure if it can handle these things:

A matrix homeserver
A lemmy instance
A website with static HTML pages
Privacy-respecting frontends (Piped, Redlib etc.)

I am thinking about getting a maxed-out Raspberry Pi 5 with a whole 8 Gigabytes of RAM. Is it worth it? I need a machine that is quiet, doesn't draw that much power and is overall pretty good for the money.

Edit: I bought this Mini PC instead of the Raspberry Pi 5. Thanks to all the comments!!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

@[email protected] I'm in your situation. At the moment on my RPI 5 I'm hosting (via docker) the followings:

lemmy
mastodon
gotosocial
peertube
pixelfed
grav CMS
matrix homeserver (synapse)
gitea
nextcloud And outside docker
teleport cluster
nginx for some reverse proxy
minecraft java 1.20.1 server

For the sake of clarity, here is my docker ps -a | wc -l

cyberpingu@vega:~ $ docker ps -a | wc -l
36
cyberpingu@vega:~ $

Almost everything is behind a reverse proxy (on another machine, a rpi4 with KVM) with an argo tunnel. And again

top - 10:38:34 up 9 days, 14:33, 14 users,  load average: 1.06, 0.50, 0.34
Tasks: 544 total,   1 running, 543 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu0  :  2.0 us,  2.0 sy,  0.0 ni, 96.0 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st 
%Cpu1  :  1.3 us,  0.7 sy,  0.3 ni, 97.7 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st 
%Cpu2  :  2.6 us,  1.3 sy,  0.0 ni, 95.4 id,  0.3 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.3 si,  0.0 st 
%Cpu3  :  2.7 us,  0.7 sy,  0.0 ni, 96.0 id,  0.3 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.3 si,  0.0 st 
MiB Mem :   8053.5 total,    156.8 free,   5744.0 used,   2683.2 buff/cache     
MiB Swap:  16384.0 total,  11620.0 free,   4764.0 used.   2309.5 avail Mem

So if the question is "Is it enough a RPI 5"? The answer is yes, it is enough (at least for moderate traffic OFC). If the question is "I have to buy hardware: is a RPI 5 the best choice?" the answer may vary depending on many things. As you've been told, if GPIO is not a problem, maybe a minipc is better.