RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting

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Here is the thing, I have 4 RPi’s of different generations (all the way from Zero W to 4B 4GB) that I use to host services at home for personal use.

Lately, I have realized I am running out of RAM to host more services, not to mention not enough switch ports to connect to.

Now I know the obvious solution is to get a more powerful setup (maybe a thin client) but electricity isn’t cheap and I am not particularly in the best shape financially speaking to shell out $300+ on a decent client to host my services.

Any suggestions?

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Where do people find equipment this cheap? Ya’ll are mind blowing with your ability to score things for such low prices.

Any links?

I'll recommend the EQ12 instead. Comes with DDR5 and 2x2.5Gb NICs. When on sale it's ~$200.

Exactly my setup. 2x EQ12 with 32 GB RAM and a standalone network for my Proxmox Cluster. Nice little things.

I've been doing computer stuff for a long time and now I have a really dumb question... what's the benefit of 2x NICs?

In case you don't have a 2.5gb switch and you daisy chain to a NAS or something?

You can use it as a firewall/router or a VPN gateway and even slap a wireless NIC or two on there and make it a combo router/AP, which can simultaneously play and transcode video as a Plex/Jellyfin server with zero hit to networking performance.

Well I'm no network engineer either but I think the most common use is a VLAN but I believe you can also just connect both to get 5Gb/s.