This is amazing, might buy a couple to add to https://Flocknet.io
How do you put anything that requires storing of something remotely secret on a general purpose hardware ran by untrusted parties?
8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
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Re: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
#82Question from a non-technical person. I've been reading a lot about tiny websites on HN (e.g. https://bearblog.dev ). Can we use these Raspberry Pis to host them? Are they performant enough? Is setting things up newbie-friendly? Having your own little corner on the internet that no one can shut down sounds pretty cool.
Better to rent a $5/month virtual server.
But if you want to learn about hosting (web servers, static routing, linux), then DIY. Using at least 2 GB RAM makes life easier.
Re: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
#83Question from a non-technical person. I've been reading a lot about tiny websites on HN (e.g. https://bearblog.dev ). Can we use these Raspberry Pis to host them? Are they performant enough? Is setting things up newbie-friendly? Having your own little corner on the internet that no one can shut down sounds pretty cool.
When our dev team was just starting out, we ran the business gitlab instance on a raspberry pi 2 model B. It took a few kernel Params to work with only 1GB of RAM, but it got there. His name was Boris and he was the company’s MVP for several years running :)
Questions:
1. What was the highest uptime Boris pulled off?
2. Why did you have to decommission him? Was there an eventual hardware failure?
Thanks!
Re: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
#84Question from a non-technical person. I've been reading a lot about tiny websites on HN (e.g. https://bearblog.dev ). Can we use these Raspberry Pis to host them? Are they performant enough? Is setting things up newbie-friendly? Having your own little corner on the internet that no one can shut down sounds pretty cool.
Yes, they are definitely fast enough for simple pages to a few thousand daily visitors. I've hosted dynamic websites from home using much more modest hardware and eventually used a first model Raspberry Pi for it.
Eventually I moved my sites to a VPS out of convenience. My ISP can't guarantee a static address with my current plan (although I've found it is static in practice so far), and the additional cost of a plan where they can exceeds the cost of renting a VPS.
If you have an ever changing dynamic IP allocation, you can still use Dynamic DNS services to update DNS records. I use GoDaddy for my names and AFAIR they provide this service, but there are also free providers that'll give you a subdomain, like https://dyndns.org. This requires some additional setup, because you need to update your IP with the dynamic DNS API regularly, for example via a cron job.
As for setup, if all you need is static pages you can use Raspbian and just install Apache or Nginx, put your files under /var/www/html and on your router forward some port to port 80 on your Raspberry Pi.
Re: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
#85Question from a non-technical person. I've been reading a lot about tiny websites on HN (e.g. https://bearblog.dev ). Can we use these Raspberry Pis to host them? Are they performant enough? Is setting things up newbie-friendly? Having your own little corner on the internet that no one can shut down sounds pretty cool.
Back when the entire web was like this, simple websites would be hosted on 50-200 MHz single core machines with RAM in the megabytes. So I don't mean to come off as confrontative but if you can't host a text-based website on a quad-core 1.5 GHz machine with 8 GB of RAM you're doing something seriously wrong.
As for setting things up, if you can apt-get install apache on any generic Linux box, you can do it on a Raspberry Pi.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Apple has made questionable hardware design decisions lately. If Louis Rossmann is to be believed, the T2 chip + secureboot situation is just as bad as the old keyboard situation. It sucks having no say over the hardware. His claims were significantly overblown. If your T2 dies, yeah, your data is toast, because the disk keys live in the T2. But the same applies for your SSD dying itself, and the T2 is not especial…
Unlike you, he owns a repair shop. I’m sure he’s basing his statement on the amount of MacBooks that come his way with a failed T2.
Unlike GP, his life is also about hating Apple in every way possible. Just looking at his YouTube channel for about 4 seconds makes it pretty obvious that he isn't even trying to be fair.
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#87Re: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
#88Question from a non-technical person. I've been reading a lot about tiny websites on HN (e.g. https://bearblog.dev ). Can we use these Raspberry Pis to host them? Are they performant enough? Is setting things up newbie-friendly? Having your own little corner on the internet that no one can shut down sounds pretty cool.
I've been hosting my own website on an ASUS Tinkerboard for years without issue. Granted it doesn't get many visitors, so not a lot of stress.
Sitting behind a free CloudFlare account mitigates a lot of bandwidth usage too.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
> web browsing, text editing and terminal. If that’s all you want try an iPad2. I think it would make a better “laptop” than a RPI. RPI doesn’t have a battery.
Good luck testing your design in several browsers on an iPad :-/
Where exactly did you get "testing your design in several browsers" from "web browsing, text editing and terminal"?
Re: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
#90Before anyone goes "OMG I could use it as a desktop" $75 is close to what you would pay for couple year old ~4 faster laptop with broken screen, sodimm and PCIE SSD slots. Quick ebay check shows things like $90 'Dell XPS12 i7-3537U 8gb 128GB SSD broken screen'
Sure but the pi is more fun.
Not sure if it is more fun to use as a desktop a machine without a normal SSD, questionable video hardware, incompatible with x86. It is certainly an interesting toy, but as a daily driver - nah.