@phlash @krans @homelab this absolutely the start point - what do you want to achieve? Also I think there’s a question of how much reliability you need/want, which will be influenced by the first question - there’s a world of difference between a machine or two to tinker with stuff you’re interested in on and something you’re going to rely on.
@jon Initially, was thinking of setting up some extremely basic web facing service (like a couple of static HTML pages). I feel like even something like a Raspberry Pi should be overkill for that…
@krans @phlash @homelab as someone who was once responsible for several Raspberry Pis distributed around Europe, do yourself a favour and get a cheap thin terminal or mini PC off eBay instead if you want something you can hold onto, or rent a £5/month VM from somewhere.
Raspberry Pis are great if you need a Linux machine with GPIO to interface with the real world, otherwise they’re just woefully underpowered computers with flakey storage.