It will not be that great like on Raspberry Pi, but Mini PC are also very low on energy. For example,. Wyse 5070 with J5005 idles around 3-5 W, which is really great. i had HP 800 Mini G3 that idled ~7-8W. Mini PCs are more powerful, expandable and can use normal SSD Drive. For selfhosting they are better, but in some places Raspberry Pi (or alternative like Orange Pi) will be better, especially when you need something small and really low power

Gitlab isn't really lightweight. It is cool, but not lightweight.

Yes. I have Orange Pi Zero 2 with 1 GB of RAM running Ubuntu. This is actually very powerful machine, more powerful than my Raspberry Pi 3B+. i bought it for about 180 polish zloty (around 40 euros). I use it for printing server with Ghostscript printer app installed via Snap. I also tried Wireguard and MongoDB - everything works fine. it works really well, but it sits around 50 C on CPU, so it can get hot.

Finally found someone who uses OpenTofu for Docker too. I saw many opinions and thinking that dropping Compose for OpenTofu/Terraform is silly, because Compose is "more native". I use OpenTofu for Docker too, but I structured code in other way, I have a module that mimics compose in some way, but is simpler for me to use. I published module here: https://codeberg.org/cichy1173/cichyform

I do not published my IaC, but I can show how code looks like for service:

module "adguard" {
  source = "git::ssh://git@codeberg.org/cichy1173/mylab-opentofu.git//modules/docker_service?ref=docker_service-v1.1"
  service_name = "adguardhome"
  image_name   = "adguard/adguardhome:latest"

  volumes = [
    {
      host_path      = "/home/cichy/docker/adguard/adguard/conf"
      container_path = "/opt/adguardhome/conf"
    },
    {
      host_path      = "/home/cichy/docker/adguard/adguard/work"
      container_path = "/opt/adguardhome/work"
    }
  ]
  
  ports = [
    {
      internal = 53
      external = 53
      protocol = "udp"
    },
    {
      internal = 80
      external = 80
    },
    {
      internal = 443
      external = 443
    },
    {
      internal = 853
      external = 853
    },
    {
      internal = 3000
      external = 3000
    }
  ]

  environment_variables = []
}

I also created an Forgejo Action to run plan on stacks with this module to check if there is a new image under the tag :latest. Oh, and also I manage Adguard Home using OpenTofu, it is very powerful: https://codeberg.org/...

For PiHole it will be OK, but for Nextcloud or Jellyfin is too slow. It is better to buy used MiniPC/Terminal - it will be more powerful

Nextcloud Deck is a really good choice and I use it, but I also know Vikunja is great

Not that cheap. Both Aurora and Fargate can be pricy, so using this for personal cloud, not as business solution, is not only a overkill, but also expensive tool, that you will not fully reuse for other services. I think, in personal selfhosted area, we agree to not use that overkilled architecture (but for typical cloud deployment it is fairly simple) to cut costs massively.

Nextcloud is hard to install in manual way (even sometimes with Docker). As far I know, both Snap and Yunohost versions of Nextcloud are solid. I used Snap version on the cheapest Linode VPS, and it worked fine, especially when I doubled the SWAP to 1 GB. Now I use Yunohost version and I have only good time with it. It is super stable, fast and reliable. I used Nextcloud_ynh on HP 800 Mini G3 with i5-6500t and now on Asrock Mini PC with Ryzen 7 5700g. It is working just great.

If you don't want to use Nextcloud, you ca install Vikunja for kanban and tasks. For notes Hedgedoc can be great.

You should be concerned, because there is always a risk, but there is also a risk when you are just using internet even without selfhosting. It is good to remember some rules:

1. Keep apps up to date
2. Open only that ports, that you need (80, 443, maybe 22 for ssh)
3. If you open ssh port, use keys authentication and cut possibility logging with password
4. Do not expose apps, that you are not need in this form, for example Yunohost allows to hide apps behind Yunohost SSO logging page
5. Using cloudflare or/and Fail2Ban is cool
6. Maybe I am a little bit paranoic, but I do not expose apps, that can be used anonymously by everyone, for example link shorters or pastebin alternatives.

It is not all of course.

I host Nextcloud and it is huge life saving tool. I use it for backuping photos, hosting calendars, tasks, contacts and RSS. I use Nextcloud Deck as Trello replacement. Nextcloud can also replace Google Docs.

Wallabag! I am using it for more than a year and it is great

Jest o tym wspomniane w ostatnim akapicie, że ogólnie użytkowników macOS jest więcej, ale na platformie Steam Linux nareszcie wyprzedził macOS.

Maybe HP 800 Mini with i5-6500t? I had this, and now it is available in Poland for around 500 PLN (~112 EUR). Something like: https://allegro.pl/... I had the same model but G3 (different chassis) Power consumption was low. With a 1TB USB HDD connected, power consumption was 7-8 watts.

Change DNS on hosts, not on router.

it is easy to use outside the network too. I use Yunohost for more than a 1 year

W zasadzie to od jakiegoś czasu Polska nie informowała o nowych pakietach pomocy. Dalej przekazywana jest wcześniej obiecana broń, np. AHS Krab. Po prostu Polska już niezbyt ma co przekazywać, zwłaszcza jeśli mówimy o broni w standardzie sowieckim. Arsenał Polski uszczuplono prawdopodobnie o 30-40%, w tym wydano broń frontową. Bardzo dużo już przekazano do tej pory i to z wielu kategorii, często jako pierwsi na świecie. Teraz po prostu nie ma czego przekazywać.

Hedgedoc and Nextcloud Notes

Z tego co pamiętam, to o szmerze coś chłopaki wspomnieli w podcaście @icd@mastodon.internet-czas-dzialac.pl i wszedłem zobaczyć co tu się dzieje :-)

Ojej, wydawało mi się że to działało dobrze :/. To jakiś bug wprowadzony w ostatnich miesiącach? https://rootblog.pl/...

Edytowałem wstawkę. Dzięki za info!

I use a Yunohost for more about 1,5 year. I love for stability and simplicity but also openess for more pro users. I have my own backup solution that works great. Yunohost isn't popular but has big catalogue. Some of the apps are not present in catalogue, so I use Docker on second device to get them.