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.