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I started with a pi 4 and it worked really well!
Thanks, but I decided to go for a 1 liter PC with a 9th gen i7 instead. I can't believe this post is 4 months old lol.
On my most active Pi 4B I run docker with: Bazarr Doplarr Foundry VTT Jacket Overseer Plex Portainer Radarr Sonarr Syncthing Transmission through VPN
You can do a lot with these little things
Edit: missed an r
As long as you learn, I would encourage you to start right now and see where it takes you. Maybe you discover that is enough and you save yourself the money for other hardware. Or maybe you realize you need a Low power NAS for Photos, a silent Intel NUC for media, a PI for pihole and a dedicated server with VMs for each instance of software you want run / toy.
I find that hosting photos server never worked for me. Is frustrating to wait for a gallery web page to load, browser has to download lots of thumbnails and many requests and latency + is hard to search recursively in nested folders. Is cheap to have a memory card on the phone and load them instantly and just put them on the NAS from time to time.
For Media I did use a Raspberry PI3, but I don't like PIs as servers. They are slow and hot and I experienced some micro sdcard issues during power loss. One advantage is that they have HDMI CEC so you don't need a separate remote if you plug it to your TV.
My main hesitation on running anything mission critical is the reliability of sd cards.
They are pretty great for anything that can be easily replaced imo. Thinking octopi, pihole, pivpn f.ex.
Pihole it of course can do. I wouldn't especially recommend doing much of anything else with the pi you use for your DNS. Reason being that you don't want your internet to start lagging because the pi is being overloaded by something else. I know if I disconnect my pihole the impact on internet speed is significant.
Servings up files should be fine (but check USB and ethernet speed), I wouldn't use a pi as my goto for streaming media though (that said I haven't tried it). I'd be skeptical about federated services as the amount of traffic and therefore processing can increase a lot once you connect to more instances so you could find it works fine for the first days but then gets more and more overloaded. Turn off federation and it would run fine but then what's the point? But I've only tried hosting lemmy, I don't know how others compare.
For sure. My old pi v2 became a PiHole when I moved on to later versions and it's just been quietly doing it's thing for ... I don't know, 6 years now?
All this:
How do you ensure that your data (files, photos) is backed up when using Nextcloud? I'm very paranoid having all my files lost due to a drive failing.