Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications

cri.dev

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

101–110 of 321 posts

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

#101

Post by Polylactic_acid »

anderspitman wrote: post #82

The hardware is there (RPi + USB storage). The server software is there (NextCloud, Plex, n8n, etc). What isn't there is the plumbing. The next logical step after this blog post is making your services accessible to your phone over the public net. You'll immediately find yourself mired in domain name registration, VPS management, TLS cert management, dyndns, port forwarding, hole punching, etc etc. There are lots of…

I tried running nextcloud on an rpi. It just doesn't cut it. I had the 4gb model and nextcloud runs but its a horrible experience. You go on the web UI and click a photo and it takes 10 seconds to load. Moved my server to a ryzen 5 based setup and now everything is instant. I'm not sure what the limiting factor on the rpi was because the ram and cpu usage was low. Perhaps it was memory or storage speed.

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

#102

Post by Polylactic_acid »

fao_ wrote: post #70
rjsw wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Switch to a better ISP.

I don't see how this is seriously a suggestion. Not everyone lives in Silicon Valley and earns a >20k/yr paycheck. There are other things to consider like reliability, cost, that force your hand.

What else do you want? If your ISP blocks incoming connections then thats the end of the story. The answer is either complex things like tor or switching ISP.

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

#103

Post by hencq »

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 use a little Raspberry Pi to host a little website as well. I use Cloudflare and run ddclient on the Raspberry Pi to notify Cloudflare when my dynamic ip address changes.

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

#104

Post by benbristow »

rcarmo wrote: post #7

Friendly reminder that you can use Piku ( https://github.com/piku ) for Heroku-like deployments.

I see it's inspired by Dokku (because Dokku doesn't support ARM). I use that for a few of my apps on a VPS, nice tool.

http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/

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

#105

Post by Polylactic_acid »

christian_fei wrote: post #10
cstuder wrote: post #3

On my Raspberry Pi 3 I'm running Hypriot OS which installs a minimal host OS and then just runs Docker. Thanks to cloud-init (Old version though) you can even pre-configure the boot image with your SSH key etc. which allows you to automate your initial install. https://blog.hypriot.com/downloads/ https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/0.7.9/topics/capabilitie...

that is interesting, thanks! sounds like a super smooth dev and deploy experience

Docker on ARM is not a smooth experience. Hardly anyone builds containers for ARM so you end up either building everything yourself or finding weird -arm versions of popular containers.

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

#106

Post by salawat »

Polylactic_acid wrote: post #101
anderspitman wrote: post #82

The hardware is there (RPi + USB storage). The server software is there (NextCloud, Plex, n8n, etc). What isn't there is the plumbing. The next logical step after this blog post is making your services accessible to your phone over the public net. You'll immediately find yourself mired in domain name registration, VPS management, TLS cert management, dyndns, port forwarding, hole punching, etc etc. There are lots of…

I tried running nextcloud on an rpi. It just doesn't cut it. I had the 4gb model and nextcloud runs but its a horrible experience. You go on the web UI and click a photo and it takes 10 seconds to load. Moved my server to a ryzen 5 based setup and now everything is instant. I'm not sure what the limiting factor on the rpi was because the ram and cpu usage was low. Perhaps it was memory or storage speed.

On SD card or USB w\UASP enclosured SSD?

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

#107

Post by z3t4 »

anderspitman wrote: post #82

The hardware is there (RPi + USB storage). The server software is there (NextCloud, Plex, n8n, etc). What isn't there is the plumbing. The next logical step after this blog post is making your services accessible to your phone over the public net. You'll immediately find yourself mired in domain name registration, VPS management, TLS cert management, dyndns, port forwarding, hole punching, etc etc. There are lots of…

Most home routers have functionality to do port forwarding and dyndns. Certbot for TLS/cert. Just get a free domain from the dyndns service. No VPS needed if you got your own hardware/Rasbery. Make sure you have backups. Just Dont expect a $30 PC to be without issues.

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

#108

Post by m463 »

Polylactic_acid wrote: post #101
anderspitman wrote: post #82

The hardware is there (RPi + USB storage). The server software is there (NextCloud, Plex, n8n, etc). What isn't there is the plumbing. The next logical step after this blog post is making your services accessible to your phone over the public net. You'll immediately find yourself mired in domain name registration, VPS management, TLS cert management, dyndns, port forwarding, hole punching, etc etc. There are lots of…

I tried running nextcloud on an rpi. It just doesn't cut it. I had the 4gb model and nextcloud runs but its a horrible experience. You go on the web UI and click a photo and it takes 10 seconds to load. Moved my server to a ryzen 5 based setup and now everything is instant. I'm not sure what the limiting factor on the rpi was because the ram and cpu usage was low. Perhaps it was memory or storage speed.

I had the same experience with a pi 3 and didn't even try a pi 4. I set up a modest intel box and it was interactive.

The 4 might have a better change with gigabit internet and faster usb, but I was still using a fast samsung fit drive, but not fast enough.

To be honest though - the intel box was modest, but still 4x the price. Additionally it's hard to beat a pi for installation - just insert the sd card. (there is always configuration)

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

#109

Post by Aperocky »

anderspitman wrote: post #89
Aperocky wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Mapping X subdomain to Y port on Z machine should take a couple clicks from a web interface. route53 can work like that, it also has a cli version. (But you can't get the domain there).

Can it tunnel to local devices like a RPi or just AWS VMs?

You have to own the IP, and map the RPi to the standard ports (80/443, likely have to set that up from router). Alternatively just do x.com:yyyy if you don't mind (though you probably do for an external facing website).

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

#110

Post by magicalhippo »

salawat wrote: post #106
Polylactic_acid wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried running nextcloud on an rpi. It just doesn't cut it. I had the 4gb model and nextcloud runs but its a horrible experience. You go on the web UI and click a photo and it takes 10 seconds to load. Moved my server to a ryzen 5 based setup and now everything is instant. I'm not sure what the limiting factor on the rpi was because the ram and cpu usage was low. Perhaps it was memory or storage speed.

On SD card or USB w\UASP enclosured SSD?

And if USB, make sure to test the speed. Some controllers need quirks enabled[1] to get speed, including a lot of popular JMicron ones. Mine went from ~20MB/s to 300MB/s for a Samsung 850 SSD.

[1]: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=245931

Post reply on HN