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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by AlexPewMaster@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I replaced 4x Pi4 4gb with a single N95 mini PC with 16gb ram and wont look back.

Only PI left in my home is just running a 24/7 USBIP bridge.

the only reason to use a pi is if you need GPIO pins for custom devices.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

USBIP bridge as in USB over ethernet?

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yip, I have a Linux VM running on one of my boxes in the garage that is plugged into a video matrix so I can bring it up on any screen in the house, I use the pi to connect Keyboard/Mouse/controllers etc to that when I'm using it.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Well that sounds cool