Sadly, my #[0] relay hath bitten thy fine earthly dust and the cooling fan has left this world.
To be fair, it was a cheap Foxconn device built for Ubiquiti as an NVR, and then I loaded Linux and Umbrel just playing around. I’m not an CS engineer, so I’m just happy it didn’t go sentient and turn on me.
Who’s got food reqs on home servers like a Pi? I’ve got 2 pi’s and honestly want to try something different.
Which pi is it?
Both my Pi’s are the newest Gen with 8g and they do fine running the blockchain and mempool and lightning. This was just a cheap box I had lying around and was playing with.
Intel NUC is the standard option for something powerful enough to run as a proper home server long-term.
Personally after owning many (I still run two) I've moved to the Asus Mini PC because there's a config with an AMD Ryzen. Much better performance than Intel and cheaper too.
I’ve seen the NUC a lot when looking, but have seen the Asus mini. I got my hands on refurbed Lenovo ThinkCenter mini that might do the trick, but it only had 256g SSD so I’d have to buy a 1-2TB external for it.
Got a used NUC i3 off of eBay ($65), transitioned my PI to it, and working like a charm
$65 is an absolute steal mate can't argue with that!
I used to run a little side hustle buying cheap NUCs, fitting 250GB SSD and 8GB RAM, installing Windows with one of those $5 license keys off eBay, and flipping for an easy $100-150 profit per unit.
