I’m quite a newbie to the self-hosted world, and I was wondering if a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 could be enough to start something and have “reasonable” performance.

I’m interested in exploring a self-hosted torrenting machine with a jellyfin server, a pi-hole instance and something like nextcloud for cloud drive and foto backup.

Is it worth trying, or it’s better I just wait to get my hands on better hardware to begin with?

Edit: thank you for answering me, you confirmed my expectations!

  • 🅿🅸🆇🅴🅻English
    3•1 year ago

    Started with one RPi 3, ended up with 5 in a case that needed ventilation and a switch. It looks cute, but… The only one working to my pleasing is PiHole. Nextcloud is slow as hell (you are bound to external HDDs over USB and that sucks).

    Oh, and one SD card went poof due to not moticing it had no free space left and still writing logs on it for 2 weeks. SD cards are unreliable in general.

    I regret not using VMs on a more beefy mini PC that I could have upgraded to my pleasing, benefit from SATA, and would have been easier to maintain.