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Looking for low power devices for selfhosting (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by pathief@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi friends. I'm a newbie in self-hosting, though I've been managing (virtual) linux servers at work for a couple of years. I'm completely ignorant on the hardware choices out there, hopefully you can point me to the right direction.

Here are my requisites:

Low power consumption, I plan to have it connected 24/7 and I'm kinda concerned on how much it will impact the electricity bill
Ethernet port, preferably gigabit but whatever
Graphical performance is not important as I don't plan to connect it to any display. As long as I can ssh into it, I'm good.

Services I plan on installing, for starters:

casaOS
pi-hole, or equivalent
Home Assistant
Kitchen Owl (nice to have)
Paperless-ngx (nice to have)

I live in europe and my budget is around 80 euros or so. Thanks in advance!

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[–] stown@sedd.it 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I just got a mini AMD box from CWWK off Amazon and I'm quite impressed. I even got a free CPU upgrade (ordered a 5600u but received 5825u)

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

+1 for CasaOS! The simplest and best I've tried.

Lots of good suggestions here already but nobodys mentioned the Asrock A300 DeskMini. Low power consumption and you could probably find one for pretty cheap.

Obviously an old laptop you don't use anymore is a great and affordable choice too. Comes with a built-in battery backup!

[–] Upakae@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

This serves a couple services, incl. kitchenowl and paperless-ngx very fine for me.
Once, I got it for around 45€.

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
NUC	Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
PSU	Power Supply Unit
PiHole	Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
RPi	Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SBC	Single-Board Computer
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage

7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.

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[–] alvaro@social.graves.cl 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@pathief@lemmy.world maybe an old raspberry pi would work for you?

[–] alvaro@social.graves.cl 0 points 11 months ago

@pathief@lemmy.world like raspberry pi 3 in particular

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