I was gifted a new Raspberry Pi. I already have a previous pihole setup and now looking for other ideas to run on my network.
I was considering a network monitoring tool. Any other suggestions?
I was gifted a new Raspberry Pi. I already have a previous pihole setup and now looking for other ideas to run on my network.
I was considering a network monitoring tool. Any other suggestions?
Please don’t go the RaspberryPi route for serious self-hosting, you’ll regret it later when you’ll realize it’s not powerful enough for ie NextCloud. It can handle PiHole for example (minus digging through the historical logs / stats via its interface), but when adding more and more services (Nextcloud, Jellyfin, a VPN, home automation, etc), it will be easier to expand via VMs (Proxmox) / Docker on a single machine that you need to maintain, you’d have easier snapshot backups, single point for firewall rules, etc, than adding RPIs. Buy a mini server, you’ll have flexibility, room for upgrade, and the costs and power consumption will be justified when scaling to multiple services.
For some of us it’s a financial issue. I already own a Raspi 4, but don’t have money lying around to get a decent mini server (e.g. acceptable performance paired with low power consumption and no fan noise).
I still manage to run a few Docker containers on top of OMV, but need to be mindful of the load:
But yes, when running a bigger backup job, I pause Immich indexing or shut down Jellyfin, just in case
For the price of as rpi you can nearly get a decent N100 mini computer with 4x2.5ports on Alliexpress. Way more capable and runs on x86-64 architecture.
And there’s also room for expension (adding more ram, space)