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I know nothing about self-hosting, only want to self-host my photos (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey everyone. I really want to replace Google photos with some sort of self-hosted solution. However, I am getting overwhelmed.

The first thing that came up when I did a little bit of research is buying a NAS. However, I just noticed these devices are so expensive with really weak specs. Feel like I am getting ripped off. Also, I heard that it can be slow? Is that true?

Anyway, I was told it is better to just buy a Resperry pi. However, these things are expensive for the specs. Would a used Intel NUC be better? Can you use any mini pc for that?

I have seen some crazy powerful (compared to the pi) cheap used Ryzen mini PCs, can those be turned into servers?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

A NAS doesn't need to have powerful specs. Serving images is a very simple task. Any background processing jobs are just that, background.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah I'm not a big fan of NAS's. I agree they're a bit of a ripoff, you're paying for convenience. The only reason to go with a NAS imo is if you're unable and unwilling to learn to use linux. Raspi4 are pretty cheap, 4gb model is like $55 iirc. If you're paying more you're probably getting ripped off. It's definitely going to be lower power usage than a NUC or mini PC. But maybe you can find a cheap used one.

But since you're only hosting photos, pretty much anything should work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know why the Pi is so expensive where I live. It is like $200 USD equivalent.

[–] pretzel 1 points 1 year ago

I think they've been dealing with some chip shortage stuff for a while now. It seems really hard to just get a plain board with no other stuff that bumps the price up past $100.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The last rPi I bought was all of $40. I thought it was a bargain for the specs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish I can find them for that much. They cost way more where I live

[–] huskypenguin 1 points 1 year ago

RPis are under powered for rendering and sorting a massive photo library. Take a look at Unraid (if you're not technical) or TrueNAS SCALE (if you are technical). With the former you can run that on pretty much any second hand hardware, the latter will take some planning.