So Fedi friends... I'm having a dilemma...
I'm looking at self-hosting some stuff (encrypted storage, photos, notes etc, and maybe a blog / eventually mastodon?) and have settled, I think, on #yunohost as I'm very low on spoons currently. Ideally I'd like to run the hardware rather than go with a VPS, but it needs to be quiet as I'm not blessed with a separate server room!
So dilemma 1:
Raspberry Pi 5 or Intel NUC ?
8Gb or 16Gb RAM
1/n
Dilemma 2:
The device will be connected to a home router which I assume means using either Tailscale, DynDNS or a VPN.
Most of it will be private (file storage, photos etc), but obviously the blog and maybe a mastodon instance would have to be publicly accessible... is this going to be a nightmare to configure or am I better off getting two devices to physically separate them?
2/n
Current considerations for the initial 'private' stack are:
Syncthing and/or Nextcloud? for encrypted files
Immich for photos
Joplin for notes / todo lists
Vaultwarden for passwords
Kiwix for knowledge stuff
For the blog there's 11ty
Not sure if I want to go down the Mastodon/PeerTube/PixedFed route, or if this would be better off on a VPS if I do... 🤷♂️
Comments / suggestions / boosts welcome...
3/3
Mar 19, 2026, 11:00 AMunless you have a Pi hat for at least one m.2 SSD, do not entrust important data to an SD card
highly advise a NUC or equivalent with 2x m.2 slots at least to have RAID (or ZFS volume)