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Give one away to me kind gentleman
This is like people who collect VPS. If you don't have a use for it, why are you buying one?
I use mine as a openvpn with dnsmasq + an adblock list (similar to pi hole, but configured by hand) mainly for my phone/tablet and to stream my ip tv app channels when I'm abroad.
I've given them all away
I've got my original RPi Model B acting as a NAS (USB SATA dock with a pair of 3TB drives in RAID1). It also runs a torrent client, webserver, and samba server.
@rajprakash
How are the IO speeds with the NAS?
The only good solution is to get an externally powered HDD, since the pi won't emit enough power.
I ran a few throughput tests a long while back but can't remember the numbers. I'll try to push some large files around this wknd and get back to ya.
For me, it was about 1~3Mbps (NTFS) and around 8 with ext 4
That's horrifically slow... my physical server provides ~100mb/s off a few drives on a software RAID0.
I've got WHMCS and Solus on my pi, and will be posting offers as soon as I find a ThemeForest template I like...
Are you running a cluster setup or just one pi.
EDIT: I realize that I just ruined a perfectly good joke
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I'm aware.
Good one!
I'm partitioning the pi, and then clustering it internally for high availability.
it tend to be a dev for home automation, but my coding sucks.
Oops. That should be MBps not Mbps. My bad
I use it as local webserver
I have 2 of them at each colo location: One as Out-Of-Band Serialserver (cable to core router), one as VPN server.
I have mine set as a wireless access point to my openvpn.
High availability? Use Delimiwho's block storage.
I was thinking of velcroing mine to the back of a flag panel monitor and putting it on the wall, then having it stream news, data, family photos, etc. Just setting it up in the kitchen as a sort of family display area. At night, just power off the monitor if you want.
These any many other grand ideas have not gotten further than my posting them on LET.
Valuable thoughts.
I've kind of always wanted to do this it's seems like a fun little project.
Me too. I've actually started collecting parts because it was the first time my partner has shown interest in electronics.
We'd make a great team. I also have many terrific ideas, but I don't even bother posting them. Here's one somewhat related to the RPi that I'll make an exception for:
I want to create an autonomous server. By that I mean a distribution or package that creates a system that has no direct means for administration, but allows access to services based on some value associated with its actions (e.g., it is tied to a bank/PayPal/Bitcoin account). So if you want to host a web site, the server itself sets the price for you, and it also handles paying its own upstream costs.
It's "the cloud" infrastructure taken to the next level. You just start plugging in new machines and they all reconfigure themselves to best provide the services that allow for the most profit. No humans required (or at least many fewer). Presumably this is how the data centers of the world's Googles and Amazons function, but I've gotten nobody interested in hiring me to make it happen for everyone else.
CCTV controller and Aircraft Radar are the current ones running might try some of the cool things others have put in here
Bereft of other ideas for my wife's Christmas present, I've started this project. Pi 3 is inbound...need to find a monitor.
Goal is a display that has various sections (kind of like the Win 8/10 Metro screen) displaying various things continuously:
I've seen various RPi digital photo frame projects, so I don't think this will actually be huge work. I haven't looked at touchscreen but this may be "view only" given that with the pi, power, SD card, etc I'm at $50 and a monitor is going to be another $100-150 or more.
i have 3, two for plane radar and one for retropi but cant make games work, damn.
We have on in the office that is running a python script to make beep noises when prtg throws an alarm :P