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Re: Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications

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Post by liability »

Waterfall wrote: post #27
liability wrote: post #4

I recently thought about getting an RPi4 but ultimately spent about a hundred dollars more to get a cheap NUC. It was a bit more expensive but it seems like a more robust platform. A real AC adapter instead of USB (apparently the RPi4 kind of botched it in some revisions? What I read wasn't confidence inspiring), takes normal SO-DIMM ram and a typical SSD, doesn't have a reputation for overheating.. it seems generall…

What advantage does an NUC have over let's say your old laptop? They seem like they're the same price as laptops with laptop specs but are missing most critical components and are a bit smaller.

My last 'old laptop as a server' dying is actually what prompted me to buy the NUC. It was a chromebook pixel long out of warranty. Until it bit the dust it suited my needs. Being a bit smaller is a nice bonus, it might be silly but I think the NUC is kind of cute.

Re: Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications

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gonehome wrote: post #26

How do people access these servers off of their home network (or do they not?). That seems like most of the value to me, hosting some service you can access from anywhere without having to use Digital Ocean. It seems like most residential ISPs don't provide a static IP and some block port 80? I think forcing ISPs to allow home users to serve traffic via some standard method would go a long way to enabling a more dece…

Afraid.org's dynamic DNS. I have a single port forwarded for wireguard, since it's just for ''personal cloud'' purposes.

Re: Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications

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Post by gramakri »

I have tinkered with RPI a lot in my previous life, I used to maintain the Qt eglfs QPA plugin. Back then, they were quite under powered CPU wise. Are the recent versions powerful enough to host websites and data for every day use? Like say, is it powerful to host a website, couple of blogs, a nextcloud/syncthing instance and say Emby/Jellyfin/Plex? Most importantly, I want to hear about setups that people are using for every day use and not just learning.

(For context, we get a lot of requests to port Cloudron to ARM/RPI but I am still not sure if these are just hobbyists/tinkerers or something people use everyday.)

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Post by StillBored »

The pi4 even overclocked isn't a great number cruncher, and I don't think the gpu acceleration has landed yet..

So I might expect it to be on par with that old of a macbook but not beat it by nearly 2x, particularly if the macbook is being accelerated. (despite having 2x the core count) Which makes me think the MBP may be suffering from some serious thermal throttling, which wouldn't be uncommon on machines of that vintage.

I also assume the call line is:

https://github.com/christian-fei/raspberry-pi-time-lapse/blo...

which is noticeably missing the -hwaccel switch, which means its probably not using the GPU on the mac..

Re: Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications

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Post by christian_fei »

antognini wrote: post #35
gonehome wrote: post #26

How do people access these servers off of their home network (or do they not?). That seems like most of the value to me, hosting some service you can access from anywhere without having to use Digital Ocean. It seems like most residential ISPs don't provide a static IP and some block port 80? I think forcing ISPs to allow home users to serve traffic via some standard method would go a long way to enabling a more dece…

I've been using DuckDNS [1]. If your IP address changes it could take up to 5 minutes to update, but in practice I haven't had any problems with it. [1]: http://www.duckdns.org/

Same here!

Re: Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications

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Post by christian_fei »

linux2647 wrote: post #38
gonehome wrote: post #26

How do people access these servers off of their home network (or do they not?). That seems like most of the value to me, hosting some service you can access from anywhere without having to use Digital Ocean. It seems like most residential ISPs don't provide a static IP and some block port 80? I think forcing ISPs to allow home users to serve traffic via some standard method would go a long way to enabling a more dece…

Dynamic DNS and WireGuard

+1

Re: Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications

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Post by j1elo »

erulabs wrote: post #5

Nice! I recently wrote a blog article about home-hosting on a RPI4 using kubernetes ( https://kubesail.com/blog/k3s-raspberry-pi ). Such a bright future in home-hosting - really looking forward to seeing the movement grow! The https://www.linuxserver.io/ community is pretty great re: home-hosting apps as well.

Wow linuxserver.io looks amazing! But the sheer number of images available make me wish the table had a column with short descriptions to know at a glance what is each thing. Most of the items (at least those I clicked) don't even have a description or link to home page, so it's difficult to have a quick overview.

Re: Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications

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Post by jakobdabo »

antognini wrote: post #6

One thing to watch out for when doing something like this is that the Raspberry Pi will by default put your file system on the SD card it boots from. SD cards aren't meant to support a lot of write/erase cycles, so it's easy to end up with a corrupt SD card after a few months to a year depending on what you're doing on your Pi. A workaround that can save you some headaches here is to only boot from the SD card (which…

Most writes are the logs, I use log2ram [1], it reduces SD writes substantially.

[1] https://github.com/azlux/log2ram

Re: Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

antognini wrote: post #6

One thing to watch out for when doing something like this is that the Raspberry Pi will by default put your file system on the SD card it boots from. SD cards aren't meant to support a lot of write/erase cycles, so it's easy to end up with a corrupt SD card after a few months to a year depending on what you're doing on your Pi. A workaround that can save you some headaches here is to only boot from the SD card (which…

I've been using a RasPi for a Pihole for years and this is a constant peeve. No matter how many precautions it takes, it eventually dives. RasPi is neat for a lot of things but I'm not convinced it's an ideal selfhosting platform. By the time you invest in the necessary addons, you might as well have gotten a used actual server.
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