Need mini server suggestions

you mean raspeberry pie?

own college?  ... be clear on question.. post some more info.

No I am an employer

Server needed to maintain  college application software and database

Seinfeld wrote:

you mean raspeberry pie?

Raspberry Pi is not a server, technically it is a single board computer.

dmd.atp229 wrote:

No I am an employer

Server needed to maintain  college application software and database

What's the software and database built off? 
Windows ASP/ IIS or on a LAMP or something else?
Are you going to build it anew or you already have the sw & db built?

If you ask for suggestion. Get a debian Linux OS on any old hardware you can get your hands on and set up LAMP on it.

If you want something online, thats a total separate discussion though.

guest_999 wrote:
Raspberry Pi is not a server, technically it is a single board computer.

You are correct, but one of my friend uses it as a simple streaming server. Unless it needs transcoding, even 4k streaming is quite easy.

Since the original post was was just about a mini server, that was the mini'est I could go 🙈

Seinfeld wrote:
You are correct, but one of my friend uses it as a simple streaming server. Unless it needs transcoding, even 4k streaming is quite easy.

Since the original post was was just about a mini server, that was the mini'est I could go 🙈

Ok just checked & it seems like latest Pi 4 can output 4k stream smoothly, it certainly shouldn't be as smooth on v3 & earlier models.

Seinfeld wrote:
You are correct, but one of my friend uses it as a simple streaming server. Unless it needs transcoding, even 4k streaming is quite easy.

Since the original post was was just about a mini server, that was the mini'est I could go 🙈

He wouldn't be able to get his hands on those SBCs easily and cheaply right now. Stock availability issues still persists.

What's the model he is using? Has he ever faced any serviceability issues?

DimeDime wrote:
He wouldn't be able to get his hands on those SBCs easily and cheaply right now. Stock availability issues still persists.

What's the model he is using? Has he ever faced any serviceability issues?

Don't know much specifically about his version etc bro .. 

Just he had told he runs streaming server and pihole .

Also I have a very old WDMyBooklive NAS which is obsolete right now, but I still use it for streaming (via twonky)/ PyLoad download Management and whatever simple linux based utility I find the need for. Its not all reliable thing to use.. just serves my purpose. Lastly not to mention works as a network based timemachine backup for 2 macs.

Seinfeld wrote:
Don't know much specifically about his version etc bro .. 
Just he had told he runs streaming server and pihole .

Also I have a very old WDMyBooklive NAS which is obsolete right now, but I still use it for streaming (via twonky)/ PyLoad download Management and whatever simple linux based utility I find the need for. Its not all reliable thing to use.. just serves my purpose. Lastly not to mention works as a timemachine backup for 2 macs.

Keep in mind WD NAS were found to have a serious vulnerability where many users lost their data as someone formatted their nas over internet as a prank.

https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/de/security/ne...

https://www.engadget.com/western-digital-my-clo...

guest_999 wrote:
Keep in mind WD NAS were found to have a serious vulnerability where many users lost their data as someone formatted their nas over internet as a prank.

https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/de/security/ne...

https://www.engadget.com/western-digital-my-clo...

Yes bro know that.. had taken proper protection at that time.. when this was in news.

I had already disabled most services to keep this slim long ago though. Good little debian box.

Go for refurbished dell/hp/Lenovo server. Stay away from the Solaris/oracle servers.

OR

Build an assembled PC with good specs as per your requirement and use as a server.

Go the cloud way instead of this approach!

santosh_blr wrote:

Go the cloud way instead of this approach!

A very costly affair 😉 Not recommended.

Opt for AWS cloud for software and databases, this will avoid any physical or hardware and maintenance cost to you and you'll pay for the services that you use.

Rajkotian wrote:

A very costly affair 😉 Not recommended.

If u want temporary cloud server(90days) Then use glcoud free trail offer.

Rajkotian wrote:

A very costly affair 😉 Not recommended.

Not really if he can figure out how to use free offerings.

Moreover it's not about money. It's about the convenience and reliability for his business operations.

santosh_blr wrote:

Not really if he can figure out how to use free offerings.

Moreover it's not about money. It's about the convenience and reliability for his business operations.

not for small indian corporate 

rajeshsns wrote:
If u want temporary cloud server(90days) Then use glcoud free trail offer.

As per the OP's post and details, seems they require it for the long term.

santosh_blr wrote:

Not really if he can figure out how to use free offerings.

Moreover it's not about money. It's about the convenience and reliability for his business operations.

I don't think free offerings will help the OP, as in Free Tier, you get very low specs which is not useful for the production usage. + Creating new accounts and keep migrating the data every year is an additional hassle.

In house Servers are equally reliable, people used to maintain and still maintaining and using it. 😉

At the end everything is about the money only, that's why we are here on this forum 😄

Seinfeld wrote:

you mean raspeberry pie?

Where can we buy these seems very costly where it's available now.