Hello everyone, I posted a couple of days asking for some advice on alternatives to RPi’s for self-hosting.

I guess I got VERY lucky and managed to buy the following setup from a surplus website for cheap (~$300). Here is the setup:

MOBO:

MSI B550 Gaming Plus

CPU:

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 4th Gen (8-Core, 16-Threads, unlocked)

GPU:

NVIDIA GeoForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GDDR6

RAM:

24GB (weird number but okay). They are all Corsair brand, not sure about the bandwidth and timing on them, haven’t had the chance to play around with them yet.

Storage:

512GB Samsung SSD

PSU:

650W (again, haven’t gotten to dig into the gritty-nitty details)

So far, on my random RPi’s, I have PiHole+Unbound, Homebridge, Wireguard server (will probably keep those three on a dedicated RPi), SearXNG, Paperless-NGX, Lemmy (duh), Nextcloud, Uptime Kuma, Plex (+Debrid) Server, Jackett, and a couple of other services I can’t really recall of the top of my head.

What and how would you recommend I set up my newest acquisition to host my services? Any specific OS to run to best handle all of this efficiently and with ease? It already came with Windows 10 pre-installed (and I’d like to keep it because my Ph.D. research uses many programs only available on Windows, SMH)

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?

Hello everyone,

My current router from 2014 is starting to give up and I am searching for a new one to replace it. I have 3 criteria that I would like for my replacement to have:

1. Be relatively new

2. Less than a $150 USD

3. Have enough power to run a network-wide VPN (my old router would max the CPU when running Wireguard and my speeds were very abysmal)

So far, I have found 3 routers that I am thinking of; Dynalink DL-WRX36, Linksys E8451, and Belkin RT3200. Truth be told, I am gravitating towards the Dynalink because it is the best overall for the price point it’s on.

I am hosting nextCloud, Lemmy, a plex_debrid serverc SearXNG, and so many more so I need hardware that is able to at least theoretically match my 1Gbps from my ISP over Wireguard with more computational power left over.

Your advice would be very appreciated.

Thank you.

I am in the process of installing Void Linux inside a virtual machine on my M1 MacBook. I have followed the guide for chroot installation and I am having trouble getting it to work.

This is what I have done, and please correct me if I am wrong:

1- Created an empty virtual hard drive

2- Booted a live image of Arch Linux aarch64 due to the lack of Void Linux live image.

3- Using cfdisk, I create a gpt partition label and write 2 partitions (500MB /dev/vda1) and (Remaining free space /dev/vda2) with mount points (/boot/efi/) and (/), respectively.

4- Format as vfat and ext4, respectively.

5- Mount them as per the guide and then manually enter chroot.

6- Again, do pretty much everything as listed in the guide.

7- For (/etc/fstab), I do the following

# Corresponds to /dev/vda1
UUID=1a2b.....uvw  /boot/efi   vfat defaults 0 2
# Corresponds to /dev/vda2
UUID=3c4d.....xyz  /   ext4 defaults 0 1
tmpfs   /tmp  tmpfs   defaults,nosuid,nodev   0 0

I am not using swap for sake of simplicity.

8- I install grub-arm64-efi and then issue the command grub-install --target=arm64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id="Void" --no-nvram. Note the --no-nvram because for some reason EFI variables are not available to me in UTM.

9- After the xbps-reconfigure -fa command, I exit and them attempt to unmount using umount -R /mnt only to be told that the device is busy. Using lsof returns nothing so I shutdown, remove the live Arch Linux image, and boot the system again only to be greeted with the UEFI shell.

I am not sure where my issue is and I would appreciate any help, advice, and/or guidance anyone can provide.

Thank you

Feel free to use pre-built images or building your own