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If you still haven't found a use for them: they make for good low-power, always-on, headless networked servers for processing-light tasks. Other commentators m
by throw10920 5y ago
If you still haven't found a use for them: they make for good low-power, always-on, headless networked servers for processing-light tasks.
Other commentators mentioned pihole/DNS, WireGuard, and music streaming, but you can also use them for a (slow) NFS server, persistent Syncthing node, Maestral host[1] (third-party Dropbox client written in Python (that can actually run on the Raspberry Pi, unlike the official Dropbox client)), or device that maintains a connection to a distributed network (e.g. Hyporborea/cjdns).
[1] https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral
- II2II 5y agoI do the same thing, with a different mix of services: - The obligatory PiHole. - An ssh server, which I use to access my internal network. - A script that scrapes a website daily. - A database to support a web development project. - A web server to support a web development project. - An NFS server, for data backups. While it is probably underpowered to serve the needs of some people, it serves my needs. Since I don't fiddle around with it very much, it has proven to be very reliable.
- MonaroVXR 5y ago>- A database to support a web development project. What language, frameworks, modules and how do you store and present it?
- II2II 5y agoIt's a basic Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL setup. This is a private project that I am working on to collect information on and plan recreation programs. The scope is sufficiently narrow that I don't see much of a need to expand beyond that setup.