The raspi is either a small hacking tool, or a learning tool. It certainly isn’t ideal for things like nextcloud, but it is by far the coolest and most fun way to learn Linux and self hosted services. I ran emulation station, did nextcloud, pihole, pivpn, fail2ban, did robotics, learned python. I now use it for one thing - pivpn (Wireguard) and pihole to access my home network remotely
I originally got it for some robotic projects, but ended up not needing it. Thought maybe I could put it to good use, so here I am.
Setting up your own wireguard vpn at home is a great option. Look up pivpn. I recommend setting the port to 443 or network time (123) to spoof your traffic and have it work everywhere
I had jellyfin, arrs, wireguard and a lot more, but adding nextcloud was too much for 4GB. It would start with 2.7 GB used, but building until it OOMs. Also rpi cant transcode, but its perfect for direct play. I upgraded my server to PC version once I had to upgrade storage. Running multiple disks from rpi requires extra cables, devices and then its not cheap small factor anymore :)
Now I have raspberry for 2nd pihole, 2nd wireguard, duckdns, upsnap (WOL) and filebrowser
What do you want to use it for? Like software dev or something to host like next cloud or whatever?
Probably more software dev.
- Home Assistant
- Minecraft ( gotta go with something like PaperMC server but even core server will run if you setup a drive on USB
- PiHole (but as I commented elsewhere, it’s overkill and you can use Pi Zero’s for this easily).
- OctoPi (3d Printing)
https://github.com/marchah/pi-htpc-download-box this is great! I have a Plex server running on my shield pro
I have 3 rpi4 4gb doing job that I use practically every day.
Pi-1
- wireguard
Pi-2 portainer agent
- bedrock Minecraft server
Pi-3 portainer main running omv6
- Kavita - amazing comic book organiser and reader
- emby - Plex and jellyfish both crapped out, apparently due to library size corrupting the dB, emby is very nice though.
- homepage - nice homepage for everything
- paperless (5 containers!) - just installed document organiser
- metube - great yt-dl web wrapper
Immich, whoogle, syncthing, openmediavault
The pi4 especially is great for proof of concept or MVP testing, but I often migrate to VMs on my proxmox hypervisor once something becomes critical. I started Shinobi, pihole, and home assistant on a pi4.
I have Adguard and Kavita on it.
Update: I forgot I have Wireguard too.
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Currently using portainer to run
- freshrss
- syncthing
- samba share While plugged into an external 3tb expansion drive. I want to do more but i only have a 2gb version so im afraid i might be pushing it.
It honeslty depends on what you do and want. I use syncthing instead of cloud services to bavk up everything i need and because i play emulated games a lot on both pc and my steam deck i can essentially have cloud saves for them.
