Do you feel the 8GB was worth it?
How many Raspberry Pis do you have and what are they used for?
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Do you feel the 8GB was worth it?
Soldato
Definitely not for the retropie. The Valheim server was sitting around 4GB with 3 players on there so I could see it being useful for that. For most things it’s overkill.
Decided to split up my pi's to do separate things.
I have a handful of things running on my Pi4, but sometimes I like to tinker and it goes offline for other things.
So I'm moving to 3, Pi3b+'s, each with their own single use:
PiHole,
Wireguard VPN,
One for network USB that I found here https://youtu.be/I5zA1lU5Tw0
Then that frees up the 4b for Transmission and Plex - I'm the only one in my house that uses it so if it goes offline it's no issue.
Setting it all up once I grab a network switch.
I have a handful of things running on my Pi4, but sometimes I like to tinker and it goes offline for other things.
So I'm moving to 3, Pi3b+'s, each with their own single use:
PiHole,
Wireguard VPN,
One for network USB that I found here https://youtu.be/I5zA1lU5Tw0
Then that frees up the 4b for Transmission and Plex - I'm the only one in my house that uses it so if it goes offline it's no issue.
Setting it all up once I grab a network switch.
I'm now currently following along with a YouTube series by NovaspiritTech, called Pi-Hosted.
Uses a single Pi 4 to host a variety of services through Docker.
So far got things working nicely:
Plex, Transmission, jDownloader, File Explorer, OpenVPN, Nextcloud.
I think the next video is going to be about reverse proxies, which is nice as I don't know much about them at all.
Uses a single Pi 4 to host a variety of services through Docker.
So far got things working nicely:
Plex, Transmission, jDownloader, File Explorer, OpenVPN, Nextcloud.
I think the next video is going to be about reverse proxies, which is nice as I don't know much about them at all.
Soldato
Seen that will revisit this. I had 4xPi2's running Portainer as a cluster for months. The master one seemed to fail but I have not got round to interrogating it. Was thinking about splitting them up again but you have reminded me to maybe user 3 in a cluster and keep 1 for random projetcs.
What did you use to cluster them together? Interested in learning about this.
Soldato
Portainer.
Hardware wise, I used a USB charging unit (power for four Pi's), made my own short Cat5e cables, a cheap Network switch, standoffs so that four of them were in a tower. Configure the master pi and config the other three to be slaves. Old desktop fan in front to blow over them all. Was in my loft for almost a year where it was running pihole, database server, network bandwidth logger and a few mess about testing containers.
Good little mock lab to get you into ansible and VM's etc. or just to hobby about.
You can use portainer to create a cluster? I didn't know that. I thought it had to be something like kubernetes.
What I'd ideally like to do is have a stack of 4 Pi's all running these many containers that I have, and if one where to go offline / die, then the clients would be none the wiser and everything would carry on as normal.
So you're saying this is possible with portainer?
Soldato
Yes I recall it was setup a docker swarm first. Then on the master pi install portainer to control them all. I would have to find the guide I used but it was well over a year ago.
Here is a nice page and I remember referring to these links of the projects as over time these things become easier to manage or someone creates a script to do the heavy work.
This one looks very similar to what I did but isn't the exact one.
Here is a nice page and I remember referring to these links of the projects as over time these things become easier to manage or someone creates a script to do the heavy work.
This one looks very similar to what I did but isn't the exact one.
Soldato
Seems awesome for its price. Wondering about availability though.. I recall when the Pi4 launched not long back it was either sold out or prices for them seemed high. COVID and shortages probably impact these somewhat too. The global chip shortage?
Associate
I've just watched eta primes pi zero 2 video on you tube, it seems very impressive for its low price. Basically he managed to easily overclock it to 1.3ghz in testing it was on par with a pi 3b performance wise.
I'm thinking this would make a perfect portable amiga emulator machine for my swos addiction.
I'm thinking this would make a perfect portable amiga emulator machine for my swos addiction.
I really recommend searching up Jeff Geerling on YouTube as well. Always love his videos. Gets into more technical detail than ETAPrime
Don
Either packaging constraints (due to core size and the ram being stacked), or licensing cost (given the target market of pi zero's)
Don
True, they wouldn't anyway as it would be Broadcom paying it.
Maybe the A53 is still considerably cheaper, or is made on a older process than the A55 so has more availability