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03-22-2012, 02:00 PM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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Raspberry Pi as a Web Server?
If you don't know what Raspberry Pi is, google it. Can the Raspberry Pi be used a web server, maybe using Nginx?
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03-22-2012, 02:48 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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It is honestly WAY to small to be used as a web server.. But that is just my opinion.
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03-22-2012, 03:24 PM #3Aspiring Evangelist
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its more of a toy to have fun with or cluster together
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03-22-2012, 03:50 PM #4Backup Guru
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If you're careful about RAM use, absolutely. You wouldn't run a huge website on it, but you should get decent performance for many thousands of daily visitors. Plenty of people are already running sites on a 256MB VPS.
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03-22-2012, 03:53 PM #5Junior Guru
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03-22-2012, 04:08 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Stick OpenVZ on there
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03-22-2012, 04:08 PM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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I'm really tempted to try it. Lets say you have one for every 2 websites, I think it may work. It should be very cheaper than most VPS's. Obviously for home use.
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03-22-2012, 06:43 PM #8Disabled
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i assure you there will be people making clusters out of it and hosting stuff with them.
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03-22-2012, 06:45 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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I have one pre-ordered, I'm planning on trying this when I get it. I'll let you know what I find out.
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03-22-2012, 06:48 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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03-22-2012, 07:32 PM #12Hosting Billing Master
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They most definitely can be used as a web server, but don't expect to host a high traffic site on them. I can see them being used, along with special software, packaged to perform a certain task. Maybe a web interface for your home automation system for example.
I'm sad they sold out, I want to buy a couple to mess around with.
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03-22-2012, 07:52 PM #13Currently in Beta
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Absolutely you could. For a small site it would be absolutely fine.
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06-06-2012, 09:06 AM #14Web Hosting Master
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I should be getting mine in a week or so. I ordered mine almost 3 weeks ago.
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06-06-2012, 02:43 PM #15New Member
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The typical LAMP server will be very slow on this device.
An alternative is to use BarracudaDrive, which is an application server designed for resource constrained systems.
The Raspberry Pi version is available here:
barracudaserver.com/products/BarracudaDrive/other.lsp#raspberrypi
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06-06-2012, 04:36 PM #16Newbie
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With it's low power requirements, a Raspberry Pi would make a great little 'location specific' web server for a hot spot at a music festival or something.
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06-06-2012, 06:39 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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Finally got mine yesterday, hopefully I'll have a chance to get it loaded up this weekend and see how it works as a web server.
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06-06-2012, 06:45 PM #18New Member
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06-06-2012, 07:15 PM #19New Member
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my little server
i've had my raspberry i running for a few days now, and have set up a little server 24/7
feel free to visit and judge its performance, its served from an adsl connection in the uk
adream.homeunix.com
it pulls 3 watts, and appears extremely stable as long as you dont try to get too much current from the usb ports
apache2, php, mysql where easy to install, haven't quite sorted out an email server on it yet
cheers
adreamLast edited by adream; 06-06-2012 at 07:17 PM. Reason: addition
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06-06-2012, 09:10 PM #20Web Hosting Guru
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If I am not mistaken, I read that the factory board doesn't come with a Real Time Clock. So if accurate time & settings are important and you shut off your Pi, then you'd want to buy or build an addon RTC (not yet available).
http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs (half way down)
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06-07-2012, 10:44 AM #21Boneless Wing Analyst
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06-10-2012, 04:10 AM #22Web Hosting Master
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Debian/lighttpd/php/sqlite/python
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06-22-2012, 01:14 PM #23Web Hosting Master
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My pi finally arrived !!!!!!!!
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06-23-2012, 03:52 PM #24VPS Hosting Guru
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Keith please show us a snap of your Pi. Yesterday itself I asked this to you
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06-23-2012, 03:54 PM #25Web Hosting Master
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