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What is a use case for this if any?
by 3327 6y ago
What is a use case for this if any?
- metalliqaz 6y agoThere isn't one. For actually delivering an application, a traditional server is better in every way, unless your application is so small that you are wasting your hardware and get killed on power costs. It's more or less the same as the people in /r/homelab who have full server racks in their basements but never do anything with most of their eBay servers other than install CentOS on them. At least those can serve movies via Plex, though.
- pat2man 6y agoI mean there are probably a few super edge cases for something like this. A digital art display, or theater production for instance. Something you can custom 3d print yourself is just about perfect for that.
- gtvwill 6y agolol brrrrt. Actually there's heaps of cases. Traditional servers are large, power hungry and generally 10-100x the compute power most jobs need if you buy a piece of hardware for a site. Traditional server also requires expensive monkey like me to service. RPI rack on other hand. plug and play. Cheap as chips to keep failover as you can keep backup rigs in a cupboard. It doesnt require expensive monkey to unplug bits. Most sites I serve have minimal if any internet at all. So cloud compute not an option everything has to be done on-site. RPI is perfect. It has more than enough grunt, costs bugger all, performance is rock solid.
- metalliqaz 6y agoDisks, man. Where are your disks??? Compute by itself is next to useless for anything serious. You need data. What do you need a compute node for if you don't have any data? You could just do it client-side in the browser.