My £60 ARM server
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My £60 ARM server
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Re: My £60 ARM server
#2I also use a small ARM server (SheevaPlug) since about two years and it can hold up easily to VPS hosting. It runs everything I would run on a "normal" server (Lighty, Dovecot-IMAP etc.), but needs nearly no power in comparison.
Re: My £60 ARM server
#3I also use a small ARM server (SheevaPlug) since about two years and it can hold up easily to VPS hosting. It runs everything I would run on a "normal" server (Lighty, Dovecot-IMAP etc.), but needs nearly no power in comparison.
The SheevaPlug is cool, but it seems like the newest ones have gone a slightly different route and thrown everything you could possibly want at it - wifi, bluetooth, audio, etc?
That's all nice stuff, but just adds to the power and price for what should be a dirt cheap, almost disposable, piece of equipment.
Though I would definitely appreciate gigabit ethernet on the beaglebone...
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#4Cool for a personal server, but there's one large downside—everything's soldered on. Upgrading a server like this isn't really possible. And what if something breaks? Unlike commodity hardware of the past, you can't just take the server out, fix the broken component, and stick it back. Before ARM servers take off, manufacturers will have to make components replaceable.
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#5Anyone else blocked by the stupid cloudflare scam about not having 3rd party cookies enabled meaning you have virus on your computer? And preventing them from reading the article?
Re: My £60 ARM server
#6I also use a small ARM server (SheevaPlug) since about two years and it can hold up easily to VPS hosting. It runs everything I would run on a "normal" server (Lighty, Dovecot-IMAP etc.), but needs nearly no power in comparison.
The SheevaPlug is cool, but it seems like the newest ones have gone a slightly different route and thrown everything you could possibly want at it - wifi, bluetooth, audio, etc? That's all nice stuff, but just adds to the power and price for what should be a dirt cheap, almost disposable, piece of equipment. Though I would definitely appreciate gigabit ethernet on the beaglebone...
I think so too - you normally don't need wifi etc. on such a device. The one I use is the original first one and I wouldn't use the newer ones. If I remember correctly they even need active cooling...
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#7I plan to do a very similar thing with my Raspberry Pi.
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#8I use my two Open Pandora's as build servers. They work just like any other PC in the house, with the difference that they can be easily unplugged and pocketed, as well. Fantastic little machines, and once you get a development environment up and running, they function extremely well.
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#9Anyone else blocked by the stupid cloudflare scam about not having 3rd party cookies enabled meaning you have virus on your computer? And preventing them from reading the article?
I didn't know Cloudflare was that harsh, that's frustrating, sorry about that :(
Re: My £60 ARM server
#10Cool for a personal server, but there's one large downside—everything's soldered on. Upgrading a server like this isn't really possible. And what if something breaks? Unlike commodity hardware of the past, you can't just take the server out, fix the broken component, and stick it back. Before ARM servers take off, manufacturers will have to make components replaceable.
I think as long as the price remains under $100, the manufacturers will consider the whole device a replaceable part on it's own.
It'd be a bit like sending out a hard drive component for an engineer to replace, when the drive itself costs $100, it's just not worth the effort for 99% of installations.