I would like to host a small instance for me and my friends (<10). I was thinking about buying a small single board arm computer to host it. What would be the minimum system requirements for this and do you have recommendations besides the raspberry pi.
Idk what the minimum requirements are, but If you have any issue getting your hands a raspberry pi, ZimaBoards seem to be cool
A pi could definitely host it, but you will need a USB storage drive, don’t put the database or uploaded files on the SD card. Networking might also be an issue; I believe that pis have their wifi and ethernet running over USB and that might create a bottleneck.
Saw in some post, CPU/RAM isn’t an issue for a small instance, only store if there’s a lot of images posted, but only if posted on that instance.
Maybe database could be an issue, if there’s many postsEDIT: Check this post comments https://lemmy.ml/post/1188427
