Looking for low power devices for selfhosting - eviltoast

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!

  • testfactor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    11 months ago

    Not to state the obvious one, but there’s always the Raspberry Pi.

    The supply has gotten better on those, so you can probably pick one up in your price range, and the power draw is super minimal.

    • rambos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      In my country pi4 8GB ram with PSU 130€ and then you need SD card and/or SSD

    • pathief@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      41·
      11 months ago

      Raspberry Pi was my first choice, but apparently I can’t even back order it :/

        • pathief@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          That reminds me, I do own a pine64 device! It was the first thing I got on Kickstarter.

          It’s a Pine A64, with 2gb RAM. I wonder if it has enough power to run all those things. It’s a budget device from 8 years ago, probably gonna have a hard time but I’ll give it a try if I manage to find it!

          • X3I@lemmy.x3i.techEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Very nice! I am running an HC4 (I think; the toaster) now since last month and so far, it’s running much better than I thought! So yes, check that one first, then see if you have to upgrade and if you do, go for aarch64 or traditional x64 but not 32 bit arm

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        If it’s been a while since you checked, it’s worth checking again. RPi has been becoming more available over the last month or two, and I was able to get one of the new RPi 5!

        Someone put together a great locator tool