I’m looking at various single board computers ( think raspberry pi) to host a server on. Namely for hosting media, an email, and perhaps a web site/fediverse instance/blog/forum on.

I’m under an assumption that a SBC and some hard drives could handle this on the hardware side. Am I totally off the mark? And what kind of os and other soft wear should I consider using?

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    1 year ago

    There are small form factor PCs that you can get used and they will have more power, IO, better compatibility, and be cheaper than a raspberry pi.

    There are YouTube videos about it and they are not much bigger than the size of a pi.

    Their initial cost might be more, but if you get a case and sd card and micro-hdmi adapter you can totally get a better system.