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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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[–] Tommy2970@feddit.it -3 points 1 week ago

That's brutal — and unfortunately very common. ISPs love the "you're violating ToS" card, especially when they have a more expensive business plan to sell you. The irony is that most residential ToS are deliberately vague about what constitutes "running a business" — a wedding RSVP site is hardly a commercial operation, but it doesn't matter when the ISP is the judge, jury and executioner. We've been lucky with Eolo so far — they haven't flagged anything. Part of the reason is probably that our traffic profile looks residential (low inbound, spikes rather than constant load) and we're not running anything that would show up as "suspicious" on their side. The asymmetry you're describing is real though. A large company can host whatever they want on enterprise infrastructure. A small developer hosting a wedding site gets cut off without warning. Self-hosting is getting harder at the residential level precisely because ISPs have a financial incentive to make it harder. Hope you found a better solution eventually.