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The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC
(louwrentius.com)
Hosting your own services. Preferably at home and on low-power or shared hardware.
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Who is this even written for? What a duh article.
If you want to lab around on the cheap then sure get a mini PC, if you need small form factor to do a sane standalone task get a pi. If you're trying to actually get off the ground in self hosted hardware, build a pc (or a server rig) and don't buy rpi or mini PC: that's not in the article, but it's free advice.