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Previously I was using Samsung N150P (netbook) as my home server and it served me around 6 years. >> https://programming.dev/post/708584

Though after upgrading to Debian 13, additional 90 packages were installed just with the upgrade. I also had a little adventure with it :) >> https://programming.dev/post/708488

Anyway, this new mini PC I got is from 2016 and surprisingly it has 8GB DDR3 RAM (I’m rich now). It’s generally in good condition. Even though it’s Celeron N3000, this one doesn’t have hyperthreading so only 2 cores. Still it’s a real upgrade over Atom N450 CPU.

Since last year, I was planning to get a Raspberry Pi and moving from there. However thanks to AI overlords it got so expensive I had to bail from that fantasy. I got this for 40$ and with 8GB RAM I think it was a good deal.

I was already planning to change my home server to Alpine for a while but I just couldn’t touch a perfectly fine system because lazy. So this time I went with Alpine and I already love how small it is. I just installed a couple monitoring tools and packages like sudo along with Pi-hole so currently it has quite few packages.

Don’t worry though, I’m planning to use that RAM, with time. :)

  • SpaghettiMaster@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    Can’t you run Apache on pretty old hardware? I thought it was something you could happily run on even some of the older versions of raspberry pi. Probably depends on what you are hosting on it of course.

    • muhyb@programming.devOP
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      2 days ago

      Technically you’re right. Apache can run on pretty much anything. Though when I say Apache, my mind shifts to LAMP immediately. Sorry about that. However LAMP can run on this too but the performance wouldn’t be good I assume.

      • SpaghettiMaster@feddit.uk
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        2 days ago

        Used mssql-server at work where we usually use windows and its a bit shit if you want low memory hosting. Though when I have run MySQL I haven’t tested low resource systems to compare that either tbh.

        • muhyb@programming.devOP
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          2 days ago

          I guess it would be better with MySQL. MSSQL is generally on the heavy side. Though, haven’t tried before but theoretically it should be possible to install LAMP with SQLite instead of MySQL. It can be actually fine on a hardware like this.