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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by ziddoap on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:10AM (#42928669)
The implied refutation of "You don't know what specific requirements people have" is that there will be people with specific requirements that a Pi/Mini PC obviously doesn't meet.
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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by lostmsu on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:41AM (#42928883)
Like what?
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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by panja on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:09AM (#42929089)
Any type of redundancies.. Geo, power, network. There's a million possible reasons why someone can't just deploy on a pi and call it a day.
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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by post-it on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:19AM (#42929178)
Do you need that? If a storm knocks my power out for a couple hours and my side project has an outage, that's fine.
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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by kikimora on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:38AM (#42930695)
This is side project, not typical web project. For a typical web project stability and safety of data are paramount.
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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by taurknaut on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @08:24AM (#42931987)
I think you mean "critical business" not "typical web project", which is not critical to anything.

Granted, I'm sure the average engineer will be very relieved to find out they're paramount to production.

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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by taurknaut on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @08:21AM (#42931957)
If you're making money off a project I suspect you're generally too far gone for advice. Then again I suppose you don't need it.
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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by mhovan on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:25AM (#42933494)
One Million Checkboxes seems like a candidate:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Checkboxes

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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by lostmsu on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @11:51AM (#42934982)
It looks like RPi should be able to handle that.
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