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My entire production website runs on a Raspberry Pi 4B + Orange Pi Zero 3 — real traffic, public dashboard, zero cloud (europe.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by Tommy2970@feddit.it to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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A few months ago I decided to self-host everything for my software house instead of paying for cloud infrastructure. Here's what's running on a Raspberry Pi 4B (4GB) at home:

Astro static site + nginx Full mail stack (Postfix + Dovecot + Roundcube) in Docker MariaDB with automated backups GoAccess analytics with custom Python bot/human separation Dynamic IP blocklist generated at every deploy Certbot managed on a separate Orange Pi Zero 3 (HAProxy + SSL termination)

The Orange Pi Zero 3 as a dedicated HAProxy node was the best €25 I spent — SSL overhead completely offloaded from the Pi, all subdomains routed through one config, clean network separation between "what faces the internet" and "what runs the services." Storage: all boards boot from SSD via USB3. No SD cards in production. The ISP situation: Eolo wireless, 20Mbps down / 100Mbps upload. Yes, upload is 5x download. For a web server that's actually ideal. Real stress test — June 22, 2026 A post on r/italy hit 20k views in 24 hours. Numbers that day:

555 human visitors (vs ~180 daily average) 151 unique IPs 72.2% return rate 9.98 MB bandwidth 0 downtime 0 errors in the mail stack

PageSpeed from Google's infrastructure:

Desktop: Performance 100 / SEO 100 Mobile: Performance 97 / SEO 100

No CDN. No Cloudflare. No edge nodes. Just nginx on a Pi. The honest limitations:

Single point of failure — yes, if the Pi dies the site goes down Mail deliverability on residential ISP is hard (Brevo relay helps) No redundancy — we run backups, not replicas

All traffic data is live and public: stats.lake8.dev/geo.html Happy to answer questions on any part of the stack.

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Awesome! You just started and you've accomplished all of this? That's respectable. Damn site better than when I first started. Git sum!

[–] Tommy2970@feddit.it 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ha, thanks! To be fair — I've been writing code since 1995, and doing industrial software for the last 21 years. So not exactly a beginner. The self-hosted infrastructure side was genuinely new territory though, and yes, a lot came together quickly. "Git sum" is going on the wall. 😄

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The self-hosted infrastructure side was genuinely new territory though

Well then, welcome to the club. Sorry if everything is a bit messy, we're renovating. Hang out, share your journey, and hopefully find a good home here at c/selfhosted......and indeed 'Git Sum'.

[–] Tommy2970@feddit.it 2 points 1 week ago

Ciao! Thank you — happy to be here. The mess feels familiar, honestly. My server room looks exactly the same. 😄 Looking forward to sharing more — there's plenty of journey still ahead.