I'm looking for recommendations for inexpensive but reliable ARM / fanless small server at the lowest cost possible. The software on it will be debian/ Yunohost (a git forge, nextcloud, some internal docomentation, etc).
Min-specs: 4-8GB RAM.
Budget: Hopefully under $250, or something I can find in the used market.
I was told rasberry pi's are not as reliable, is there better?
@NiwlCraft do you know why raspberry pis "aren't reliable"?
I have a pi 3 and a pi 2 that have been running for years without issue.
One is running pihole DNS and wireguard VPN (my network doesn't work if it doesn't work, if it goes down it's obvious) and no discernable issues with them, no outages.
@NiwlCraft granted, NextCloud is kind of heavier/slow, not sure I'd want to run it on a pi 3, but it would probably be fine on the 4 or 5.
I ditched nextcloud due to general slowness, and wanting it mostly for pictures, which I now use immich for.
@NiwlCraft I'm not using it much at all, but I've had better experience with Seafile.
It's got some proprietary format though for how it works (why it's faster) so I think it isn't as straightforward for backups.
99% of what I needed was picture storage though, fulfilled by immich.
Not sure if you're able to test Seafile vs nextcloud but it might be worth testing to see what works for you.
Nextcloud does have more calendar, chat, etc tools though so I still see a benefit to using it for that.
@coolcoder360 @NiwlCraft I have much nicer experience with syncthing than with nextcloud, although in case of syncthing bigger issue is android client especially 'lite' one (which doesn't mirror everything).
That being said, skylable's SX and SX-drive were brilliant, but they no longer exist.
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