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I don‘t know if this is the right place to ask, but is this an OK build for a first start in selfhosting? Is there anything obvious I could improve? I‘d mainly run Nextcloud, Immich, some Docker containers and smaller web applications and cronjobs.

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[–] negativenull@piefed.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I run a lot of containers in my homelab, which consists of an OrangePi (similar to an RaspberryPi 5). It works surprisingly well, and was only (at the time) $250 for the board, case, and emmc drive.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 19 hours ago

Not for me. I have a very quick ryzen setup with tons of ram and nvme etc. I never want back to a orange pi. But sure. I don't like waiting, as a developer myself I just want to have quick loading pages and services.

Most of these devices have very limited IO disks speeds as well as slow processors. And also limited ram.