Here is the thing, I have 4 RPi’s of different generations (all the way from Zero W to 4B 4GB) that I use to host services at home for personal use.

Lately, I have realized I am running out of RAM to host more services, not to mention not enough switch ports to connect to.

Now I know the obvious solution is to get a more powerful setup (maybe a thin client) but electricity isn’t cheap and I am not particularly in the best shape financially speaking to shell out $300+ on a decent client to host my services.

Any suggestions?

    • bastion@feddit.nlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Zram swap is basically this: Turn all of your free ram into a swapdisk. Compress all access to that swapdisk.

      So, it’s not using you storage, buy your memory. Most stuff in memory is usually highly uncompressed - so it compresses really well.

      Instead of getting the additional space from disk, it’s getting it from compression.

      • admin@lemmy.mohammadodeh.comOPEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Can you please explain to me the difference? How does a swapdisk compare to RAM? I don’t mind googling it but I highly doubt I’ll get a straightforward ELI5 style answer from there.

        I would really appreciate it if you can elaborate, if you have the time that is.

        Thank you.