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I personally recommend you to go for a GMKtec G3 instead, you will not regret it. Good luck.

In my humble opinion the Pi 5 is very expensive for what you get. You just don’t buy the board, you also buy the fan (cooling), case, power supply and SSD + connection adapter. For more or less the same price you can get a refurbished Intel NUC with a i3, 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD. Or you can look for N100 at AliExpress. You will get the full blown experience and reliability + x86. And if you want to use Plex then you can make use of QuickSync for hardware encoding. I don’t understand why people bother with the Pi if they don’t need the GPIO. The extra power consumption of a NUC compared to the Pi 5 is minimal, in my case just 70 cents a month. Do yourself a big pleasure and get a NUC. The Pi is not the all in one cheap solution anymore it used to be. And x86 so no goofy community maintained as is ports to arm.

And you can upgrade a NUC with more RAM up to 32 GB if you pick a model which supports that amount.

@[email protected] I'm in your situation. At the moment on my RPI 5 I'm hosting (via docker) the followings:

• lemmy
• mastodon
• gotosocial
• peertube
• pixelfed
• grav CMS
• matrix homeserver (synapse)
• gitea
• nextcloud And outside docker
• teleport cluster
• nginx for some reverse proxy
• minecraft java 1.20.1 server

For the sake of clarity, here is my docker ps -a | wc -l

cyberpingu@vega:~ $ docker ps -a | wc -l
36
cyberpingu@vega:~ $ 

Almost everything is behind a reverse proxy (on another machine, a rpi4 with KVM) with an argo tunnel. And again

top - 10:38:34 up 9 days, 14:33, 14 users,  load average: 1.06, 0.50, 0.34
Tasks: 544 total,   1 running, 543 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu0  :  2.0 us,  2.0 sy,  0.0 ni, 96.0 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st 
%Cpu1  :  1.3 us,  0.7 sy,  0.3 ni, 97.7 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st 
%Cpu2  :  2.6 us,  1.3 sy,  0.0 ni, 95.4 id,  0.3 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.3 si,  0.0 st 
%Cpu3  :  2.7 us,  0.7 sy,  0.0 ni, 96.0 id,  0.3 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.3 si,  0.0 st 
MiB Mem :   8053.5 total,    156.8 free,   5744.0 used,   2683.2 buff/cache     
MiB Swap:  16384.0 total,  11620.0 free,   4764.0 used.   2309.5 avail Mem 

So if the question is "Is it enough a RPI 5"? The answer is yes, it is enough (at least for moderate traffic OFC). If the question is "I have to buy hardware: is a RPI 5 the best choice?" the answer may vary depending on many things. As you've been told, if GPIO is not a problem, maybe a minipc is better.

Why not get a minipc? For the same cost you can get way more performance

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I replaced 4x Pi4 4gb with a single N95 mini PC with 16gb ram and wont look back.

Only PI left in my home is just running a 24/7 USBIP bridge.

the only reason to use a pi is if you need GPIO pins for custom devices.

You can try a mini PC, you mentioned Germany so for example this https://amzn.eu/d/0Evab2M I think that should be a bit more powerful than a Pi, but not sure by how much.

A Pi 5 8GB is very expensive once you buy the power supply, case, cooling, adapters, etc.. And you're stuck with ARM64 stuff which doesn't support some things.

Personally in your shoes I would spend $80 or so on a USFF PC with an 8th or 9th gen Intel CPU off ebay.

I bought a CN62 Chromebox, and put MrChromebox's Bios on it -- I did the rounds comparing it with a Pi 4 and it was 2.5x faster, and could easily saturate my gigabit connection. It came with 16gb of storage, and 2gb of ram; but using ACTUAL DRAM slots. I could upgrade it to 16gb if I needed to down the line.

The whole thing, cost me like $45 shipped; power supply, storage, everything needed...and it's an X86 instruction set - so I can use whatever version of Linux I want, without any crazy Raspberry Pi specific patches/builds.