I would like to host a small instance for me and my friends (<10). I was thinking about buying a small single board arm computer to host it. What would be the minimum system requirements for this and do you have recommendations besides the raspberry pi.
Idk what the minimum requirements are, but If you have any issue getting your hands a raspberry pi, ZimaBoards seem to be cool
A pi could definitely host it, but you will need a USB storage drive, don’t put the database or uploaded files on the SD card. Networking might also be an issue; I believe that pis have their wifi and ethernet running over USB and that might create a bottleneck.
Kind of a big jump from a pi but I believe Intel NUCs come in single board arm configurations
I find that ebay used desktops and laptops excellent for this kind of thing. You can find used Dell Optiplexes for under 100 USD on auction, if NUCS are too expensive.
Saw in some post, CPU/RAM isn’t an issue for a small instance, only store if there’s a lot of images posted, but only if posted on that instance.
Maybe database could be an issue, if there’s many postsEDIT: Check this post comments https://lemmy.ml/post/1188427
