The Raspberry Pi served me, literally, very well for ~ three years, but it was starting to struggle with the load, as the fediverse gets busier.
But I really can't complain. My home in the fediverse for quite a while was a box about the size of a deck of playing cards.
Now it is a box about the size of four decks of playing cards.
This, for me, is part of the Internet that I would hate to lose: the ability to run one's own servers, and host one's own content.
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The thing I find difficult to get information on is the power draw of NUC class machines. The Raspberry Pi is a very low power solution, but I expect once you've got 3 or 4 it's time to consolidate.
I just don't want something consuming 100W continuously when Pis would do it for 20W.
@weebull@qoto.org @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk exactly – for me it’s not important enough to show up on the electricity bill
This fire fish and my web server runs on a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB with USB3 SSD where the Raspberry Pi OS boots from
It’s not the principle of the thing, it’s the money!