Kent Borg wrote: > On 7/28/22 09:40, Dan Ritter wrote: > > I see no reason why it wouldn't work for other things, but I > > would have to ask why you would want to do that. > > Very likely silliness. > > Or, maybe not. Small, quiet. The Raspberry Pi 4 is decently powerful. For a > low volume e-mail server, more than sufficient.
That's where consolidation comes in. If you have a low-volume email server, and a low-volume web server, and a chat service, and a NextCloud service, and media storage... well, they can all go on one medium sized machine instead of five Pis. > And in the last few days I started hearing funny noises, quiet, only > occasional; I thought they were coming from outside. Today I realize they > are coming from that machine. A bearing is going to give up soon. Fans are cheap and easy to replace, and power supplies are easy to replace. Get ahead of the problem. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
