for over a year now, i have been self hosting things on my raspberry pi 3b+ that i got online for very very cheap.

now i have been thinking of upgrading my home server to that is not arm based so that i could run x32 x64 things on it that could not be ran on an arm processor.

i have been thinking of getting an preowned old mini pc such as an i5 5th gen or i3 5th gen, however i am very concerened about the power usage. electricity is expensive in our country so i want something power efficient like a raspberry pi.

any suggestions?

i have recently bought a raspberry pi and set it up as a small home server for me to play with and get my hands dirty. the first thing that i wanted to self host is a dns server so i set up adguard on to my raspberry pi home server and gave the raspberry pi a local static ip of 192.168.2.155 using my home router settings

i then set my router's dns server to be 192.168.2.155 (my raspberry pi home server) so everything goes through my raspberry pi home server. for quite some time everything has been working ok and ads and tracking things are getting blocked and logged in adguard but recently it just stopped working properly.

one day things suddenly were not working. when i access a website, somtimes

• the connection times out (i dont know why this happens)

• dns probe issue

  • i understand this might be from my adguard not working properly BUT when i set my router's dns server to default, and locally set my PC's dns to be 192.168.2.155 , everything is working okay.

• cannot connect to wifi at all

  • if i try to connect to it, it just kicks me out and i need to reset the router for me to be able to connect to the wifi again

anyone have any theories on what this issue might be?