I'm a complete selfhosting beginner. How much is feasible on a single Pi 4B (4 GB RAM)? (lemmy.world)

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Hey! I'm trying to get into self hosting and was wondering what would be possible with a single Pi, at least until I can get more capable hardware.

The servies I'm interested in would be things like a pihole, music server, photos server, a few personal fediverse instances (mainly owncast), a small Matrix homeserver for my friends, etc, etc. Media server but that's obviously way into the future I think.

While I don't intend or think I can run all of this on one Pi, I just want to know how much is possible. I'm really thankful for any feedback I may get. My apologies for the noobness if I'm completely wrong about all of this.

One last thing, any recommendations on any other services I should try out as a beginner?

Edit: In hindsight, I really do I wish I asked about the ability of sharing these services with people and how that would affect the load and performance. One of my biggest goals is to have this used by family and close friends.

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[-] brenno@lemmy.brennoflavio.com.br 1 points 10 months ago

I started with a pi 4 and it worked really well!

[-] shinnoodles@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Thanks, but I decided to go for a 1 liter PC with a 9th gen i7 instead. I can't believe this post is 4 months old lol.

[-] Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com 0 points 1 year ago

The pi would be fine for a lightweight music server (ex. gonic), maybe a lightweight photo app and pihole.

Fedi software generally requires a decent machine, so it's probably better to use something else; same for matrix.

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Each project may publish minimum specs. Find what you and add them up. Fediverse instances can require several services and are the most complex thing on your list.

[-] shinnoodles@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Thank you! The only thing I'd want to host is Owncast upon reflection, which I probably won't be doing until I have a better setup than I do now.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Owncast is very bandwidth heavy. If your net connection doesn't have a high upload speed you are going to have problems with it.

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