I’m no expert so don’t quote me on this, but if you’re planning on low user numbers (say yourself and a couple of friends) a Pi setup should be more than sufficient.
Funnily enough, my first Lemmy instance was running on my Raspberry Pi. Ran fine actually! (You just need to make sure you’re running the ARM64 image)
The only reason I switched to a VPS is because I had a very complicated setup for my RaspberryPi. Basically, I didn’t want to expose any ports on my home router to the internet. So I was using a VPN with port-forwarding. The problem was that the VPN randomly assigns the port to access the device. So I had to map whatever port they gave me to 443 (for SSL). It did work kind of. I had HTTPS working, but I would need to append the port to the URL (e.g. https://my-domain.com:57493), which didn’t work well with Lemmy for federation. So I just decided to get a VPS instead 😅
TL;DR
I had Lemmy running on a Pi, but my setup was too convoluted, so I switched to VPS.
I Wonder if a raspberry pi would work for this.
I’m no expert so don’t quote me on this, but if you’re planning on low user numbers (say yourself and a couple of friends) a Pi setup should be more than sufficient.
Funnily enough, my first Lemmy instance was running on my Raspberry Pi. Ran fine actually! (You just need to make sure you’re running the ARM64 image)
The only reason I switched to a VPS is because I had a very complicated setup for my RaspberryPi. Basically, I didn’t want to expose any ports on my home router to the internet. So I was using a VPN with port-forwarding. The problem was that the VPN randomly assigns the port to access the device. So I had to map whatever port they gave me to 443 (for SSL). It did work kind of. I had HTTPS working, but I would need to append the port to the URL (e.g. https://my-domain.com:57493), which didn’t work well with Lemmy for federation. So I just decided to get a VPS instead 😅
TL;DR I had Lemmy running on a Pi, but my setup was too convoluted, so I switched to VPS.