I am several months into the self-hosting journey and I feel I have outgrown my Pi 4 B 8GB. I’m only running around 3 dozen containerized services and it seems to struggle to keep up. But I’m not sure of the best bang for my buck. I’d like good, long-term performance, but I don’t really have a grand lying around for a Lenovo Tiny or Dell Optiplex or ASUS NUC. I’m thinking of buying an SSD to boot from, but will this even help much? For $350-500, could I make a more cost effective homeserver upgrade?

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    A second Pi? According to the RPI Locator, Raspberry Pi’s are available for list price now.

    My use case is a bit different in that I don’t know what containerized services I want to run, except that I want to play with Kubernetes. Raspberry Pi still seems like a good choice and I may restart that project soon

    • DARbarian@artemis.campOP
      7·
      10 months ago

      I’d rather keep all the services to a single more powerful device and then relegate the Pi to more specialized, Pi-related tasks like a smart doorbell cam or Home Assistant Hub.

      • AdminWorker@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Cost of electricity is non zero. Distributed computing between pis might be the most cost effective way (hardware and electricity)