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Raspberry Pi 4 launch site runs on a Pi 4 cluster
- Symbiote 7y agoArs' article adds the performance comparison, but it's interesting that the main source [1] suggests they're using power-over-ethernet to power these. (At least, they were for the previous set.) https://blog.mythic-beasts.com/2019/06/22/raspberry-pi-on-raspberry-pi/ https://blog.mythic-beasts.com/2019/06/22/raspberry-pi-on-ra...
- a012 7y agoThe photo shows a PoE switch.
- bhouston 7y agoI guess this is why the site was down the morning of release. It didn't have proper autoscaling.
- JoshMcguigan 7y agoThe article describes the downtime as being caused by a "severe BGP error Verizon made".
- navbaker 7y agoFull story on the outage: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/24/verizon_bgp_misconfiguration_cloudflare/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/24/verizon_bgp_misconf...
- 7ewis 7y agoA BGP error could be completely out of their control and nothing to do with using a Pi at all.
- detaro 7y agopreviously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20265751 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20265751