Same reason nobody hosts their production website on a Celeron box in the corner of the office: Production hosting is about more than just requests per second.

Same reason nobody hosts their production website on a Celeron box in the corner of the office: Production hosting is about more than just requests per second. The Pi server thing is a proof of concept that ignores everything else that goes into production hosting. You can do it, it’s just going to be miserable like any self hosting, slower than any x86 hardware, and require the equivalent of thousands or tens of thousands of dollars of engineering time just to accomplish what you could get with a few clicks and 15 minutes with AWS. There’s a reason their hosted Rasperry Pi service is more expensive than getting an EC2 micro instance: https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi