Comment on Can a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB of RAM handle my needs?
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 6 months ago
As someone that has only recently started selfhosting stuff, I can’t offer much advice. But having bought an RPi5, which runs most of my things, I’ll tell you this finding from my research. They’re awesome, but the SD cards don’t last long, so ideally you want to minimise the writes. I’m not sure a Matrix server allows you to do that. Though it absolutely can handle all of the above.
AlexPewMaster@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
This is what scare me the most. Ideally, I want a whole SSD to store data. I really don’t want to lose any important data. I plan on hosting public services (like the services I’ve mentioned above) under my domain, so having a reliable drive would be really helpful.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
General rule: if you have “important data” don’t go cheap. Get a real computer. Have backups. Test them.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 6 months ago
Yeah. You can pretty much mitigate all of your concerns with an SSD. But I’ve never run anything public facing. So make sure you confirm that there’s people running said services on Pis before you pull the trigger.