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Why is my Raspberry Pi 4 too slow as a server?

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40 points raybb | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 17:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.234s | source
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PeterStuer ◴[25 Jun 25 10:14 UTC] No.44375542[source]▶
"A beefy VPS (16 vCPU, 48 GB of RAM, 1 TB SSD) in a German datacenter A Raspberry Pi 4 (8 GB of RAM) in my living room"

While I loved the sleuthing, I did not get why the comparison had to be between thise extreme ends of the spectrum.

Why not test a small extra cheap VPS, or, as the author does in the end, a somewhat normal PC at home?

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1. thibaultamartin ◴[25 Jun 25 11:07 UTC] No.44375900[source]▶
Author here, that's a great question. I only host a handful of services on the VPS, including Nextcloud. I was mostly interested in storage, not so much in compute power.

Netcup offered VPS with 1 TB of storage for €30 / month back when I subscribed. The server has always been oversized for my needs, but that was the most financially interesting back then.

I recently switched to another ISP at home that gives me a fixed IP. I decided to move my services at home to shave off the VPS costs. Since I already had a Raspberry Pi 4, I only had to buy a SSD and an enclosure.