I am thinking about hosting my own Mastodon server from home on a Raspberry Pi (Pi4 8GB)?

  1. Are there good tutorials out there?
  2. What’s the annual cost just to host yourself?

@linux @nixCraft @raspberrypi

    • utopiah
      6·
      9 months ago

      Because it’s cheaper (barely but still), smaller (fits right into the Pi and its case) and more convenient (no adapter). When one just got a Pi that might even be sold with a microSD then they’ll use that.

      I’m not arguing it’s the right thing for data intense usage but the “why” IMHO is pretty obvious.

      • bartolomeo@suppo.fi
        4·
        9 months ago

        Come on, it’s a raspberry pi not an iphone. Those things are for tinkerers who live by “if it ain’t broke, fix it till it is”.

        • utopiah
          1·
          9 months ago

          It’s for tinkerers yes but the RPi is popular because they try to facilitate the tinkering process. That means a lot of people will buy it in order to learn. That’s precisely why they sell the RPi400 and RPi with introductory books.

          It’s not the same audience that’ll by a RPi5 without a case or compute modules.

    • dan@upvote.au
      3·
      9 months ago

      If you’re using a SATA SSD then you don’t even need an enclosure, just a cable like this StarTech USB 3.1 one: https://a.co/d/0fBSMs7

      The SSD is already in an enclosure (the case of the SSD), so placing it inside another enclosure is redundant…

      NVMe SSDs aren’t worth getting for the Pi 4 because it doesn’t have a PCIe bus, so you’ll only be getting USB speeds anyways. A SATA SSD is fine for that. Still aorund 4x faster than using an SD card.