Raspberry Pi 4 vs Orange Pi 5 Plus: Which Should You Buy?
Affiliate disclosure: some links below are affiliate links. If you buy through them we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. See our full disclosure.
Homelab essentials
Whichever tools you land on here, two things make any self-hosted setup safer:
- Privacy + secure remote access — reach your services from anywhere without exposing ports to the internet. Our pick is NordVPN — independently audited no-logs, fast, with Meshnet built in for linking your devices.
- Off-site backup for your configs & data — pCloud, EU/Swiss-based with optional zero-knowledge encryption and one-time lifetime plans, so a dead drive never costs you your setup.