I’m new to this stuff so go easy on me.

So I want to get into selfhosting, and I’ve decided to get a Raspberry Pi 5. I plan to attach drives to it, from about 500GB-1TB. I’m on a budget, preferably under $100.

I want to host these things:

  • A personal lemmy instance
  • A samba server, to store files and backups
  • A mail server
  • A few other light docker containers

I was wondering whether I should get an SSD or an HDD for these. Lemmy would probably like an SSD because it uses Postgres, but an HDD would be better for storage since I get more GB per dollar.

What should I go with?

  • EbbyAEnglish
    15•23 days ago

    Didn’t the Lemmy teams sort of fix that CSAM thing ages ago?

    I remember a wave of lockdowns and hush hush related to that, soon followed by an update to Pictrs with a bunch of new docker compose settings.

    My server got pooched in the update and it took me almost a month to fix partly because I had little free time.

    • ScrubblesEnglish
      15•23 days ago

      There were some automod things built by 3rd larties, and they help, but it’s still a worry. There’s also image proxying now, so at least I’m not directly hosting it, but I’m not 100% that the feds will see it that way immediately

      • EbbyAEnglish
        5•23 days ago

        Ah, thanks for the info!