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I’m considering setting up a server for various uses, advice? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by megopie@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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[–] rdh@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a pi could probably do that, I know everything except the fediverse instance will work, and the fediverse instance may, I've just never tried it, so I don't know!

One suggestion I'd make is this: A lot of tutorials these days will have you set things up in Docker. Docker is a great tool, and at some point in your journey you should learn how to use it, but it does sort of abstract away a lot of the services you're running.