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RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting

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Here is the thing, I have 4 RPi’s of different generations (all the way from Zero W to 4B 4GB) that I use to host services at home for personal use.

Lately, I have realized I am running out of RAM to host more services, not to mention not enough switch ports to connect to.

Now I know the obvious solution is to get a more powerful setup (maybe a thin client) but electricity isn’t cheap and I am not particularly in the best shape financially speaking to shell out $300+ on a decent client to host my services.

Any suggestions?

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helenslunch@feddit.nl
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I’ll recommend the EQ12 instead. Comes with DDR5 and 2x2.5Gb NICs. When on sale it’s ~$200.

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Matthias Klein@lemmy.klein.ruhr
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Exactly my setup. 2x EQ12 with 32 GB RAM and a standalone network for my Proxmox Cluster. Nice little things.

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CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee
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I’ve been doing computer stuff for a long time and now I have a really dumb question… what’s the benefit of 2x NICs?

In case you don’t have a 2.5gb switch and you daisy chain to a NAS or something?

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sploosh@lemmy.world
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You can use it as a firewall/router or a VPN gateway and even slap a wireless NIC or two on there and make it a combo router/AP, which can simultaneously play and transcode video as a Plex/Jellyfin server with zero hit to networking performance.

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Well I’m no network engineer either but I think the most common use is a VLAN but I believe you can also just connect both to get 5Gb/s.

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