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Re:Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016) by bmurphy1976 on Monday October 25, 2021 @12:22PM (#28989648)
All the stuff I used to do on a large and clunky hot power hungry noisy Intel box is now comfortably running on a cluster of Raspberry Pi's tucked away in the basement ceiling where nobody can see them. I wish they were a little faster in some cases (particularly serving the Nextcloud UI) but overall I much prefer this setup, especially since I can add Raspberry Pi's to facilitate specific roles like I would in a production data center deployment.

I've got a web server, a SAN, a couple pi-holes, and a home automation controller. I plan to spin out my databases and Prometheus onto their own Raspberry Pi's. All of them are configured using Ansible. I can recreate one in a hurry if it dies and data backed up to a ZFS partition on the SAN pi. I have a couple additional Raspberry Pi's that I temporarily hook up to the network and run a script to sync the latest ZFS snapshots over for backup purposes.

I'm sure you could find SOME use for them :)

Re:Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016) by 542458 on Monday October 25, 2021 @12:55PM (#28990129)
> particularly serving the Nextcloud UI

Nextcloud is an absolute dog. Even on a server with loads of power and an SSD-based database over a local connection with all the caching options turned on… it’s still not snappy. I wish we had better FOSS options in this space.

Re:Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016) by tenebrisalietum on Monday October 25, 2021 @01:04PM (#28990265)
Agree totally. It's not FOSS but I've had good experience with FileRun.

I loved Pydio but it was simply too slow.

Re:Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016) by mattkevan on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:04PM (#28991761)
They’re just plain handy to have around. I use mine as an Airplay receiver with shairport-sync, an ebook opds server with Calibre Web and as a development machine so I can continue working on websites when I only have access to iOS. It’s great!
Re:Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016) by blackandsqueaky on Monday October 25, 2021 @01:21PM (#28990504)
Beware of proper insulation, even low energy devices can start a fire