I’m looking at various single board computers ( think raspberry pi) to host a server on. Namely for hosting media, an email, and perhaps a web site/fediverse instance/blog/forum on.

I’m under an assumption that a SBC and some hard drives could handle this on the hardware side. Am I totally off the mark? And what kind of os and other soft wear should I consider using?

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  •  jagoan   ( @jagoan@kbin.social ) 
    6•1 year ago

    I have a few thoughts,

    1. Self hosting email sucks. Unless you just want the learning experience, pretty much major email service will mark your address as spam. I’d just get the lifetime account on mxroute (pretty sure it’s still available).
    2. I have tried using raspberry pi (3B) as media / file server. It’s running, but for some reason, the HDD won’t spin down even when no one’s accessing the drive. The drive is extremely hot and loud. Gave up on that.
    3. That said, everything else would work just fine. My pi is running pihole, octoprint, and CUPS. And it barely need any maintenance.