I am not looking to onboard thousands of users or host large communities, just my own and some family and close friends’ accounts. I don’t currently have a scalable homeserver setup (just a local Home Assistant instance on a Pi) and don’t have the space to put an old desktop running Proxmox on a cable.
I was browsing single-board computers and the Pine64 (2GB RAM) looks like a good deal. It seems more powerful than similarly priced Raspberry Pis (3B 1GB). Is it good for running a small Lemmy instance on?
EDIT: Thanks for the advice all, just bought an 8th gen i3 NUC (4 vCPU, 8GB RAM) to play around with Proxmox and VMs. Going to start off with migrating Home Assistant and then set up a Lemmy instance, and perhaps a static website too.
I second this. I used to use Raspberry Pis but one mini PC can do so much more and isn’t much more expensive.
Yeah, maybe I was rough on them but I killed like 2 Pis in a year running OpenELEC/LibreELEC (even with heatsinks) before I bought an Nvidia Shield (which was great until Google forced terrible things onto it and Nvidia seemingly stopped supporting it). I grabbed one out of my homelab and I’ve just been running straight Ubuntu on it for about 6 months at this point and wouldn’t dream of going back.