Would you be able to host instances for stuff like mastodon and peertube on a raspberry pi more specifically the raspberry pi 5
I switched from raspberry pi and orange pi to a cheap Intel NUC, and I think it’s just a much nicer experience.
The pi is great fun, but the HW transcoding on a NUC “just works,” and the SSD and 16GB RAM opens a lot of doors. My N100 NUC was less than $150, and it included everything (case, power supply, 500GB SSD).
My pi found new life as an off-site backup: attach a big HDD, set up WireGuard, and have a cronjob do daily rsync and snapshots. I have it set up at in-laws, and it works great.
You can host whatever it can handle, sure. Your limits are the resources available as with any machine.
Here is a page listing some system requirements for Peertube. It says 4 cores and 4GB RAM for 1000 viewers, which some Raspberry Pi systems have.
tysmm, I was gonna buy one to host a few things on but I needed to be sure before I did
With the current pi prices, buying a used minipc might be cheaper and give you more resources.
Sometimes it’s a power consumption issue.
In my case I could use a pi in terms of CPU and ram but I need a lot of SATA. After putting in a perfect energy saving MB and a picoPSU I am idling at 16 watts. But id preferred a pi regarding power.
But yeah sff PCs are cheaper and much more powerful.
