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One use case is the cost of RAM when you buy a VPS. Low-end VPSes are cheap ($5 a month and under) but if you have multiple apps (or one big one), getting a dec
by bityard 6y ago
One use case is the cost of RAM when you buy a VPS. Low-end VPSes are cheap ($5 a month and under) but if you have multiple apps (or one big one), getting a decent amount of RAM in a VPS raises the price significantly.
Using Linode as a benchmark, a 512 MB VPS is $5/mo but an 8 GB VPS is $40/mo. But an 8 GB Rasberry Pi 4 is well under $100 with peripherals so after three months it will have paid for itself.
This of course assumes:
1. that the cost of powering the Pi is negligible
2. your home internet connection is stable enough and fast enough
3. your apps run as comfortably on the Pi as on VPS