Monday, September 5, 2022
Raspberry Pi
Just before the pandemic hit in March 2020, I had decided to buy a Raspberry Pi kit including a monitor that I found for under $100. Once the country shut down, I had a project to keep me busy.
As you might expect there are many sites on the internet that will guide you to set up the Raspberry Pi, including their main site so it was a matter of taking the bull by the horn and diving into the DIY aspect of the project. One of the better sites I found is Tom’s Hardware where you can also find other articles about technology. Surprisingly, it wasn’t as difficult to set up as I thought it would be even though I was entering areas that were foreign to me…I refer specifically to working with Linux. Working with a command prompt reminded me of my DOS days, before Windows came along with their GUI.
My goal was to set up a web server and for the most part, I succeeded after many fits and starts. I even had one of those free DNS services that provided a domain allowing me access to the server as I would my shared webhost. I would probably still have it going if my SD card hadn’t crashed wiping out everything I had done up to that point. After that happened, I just wasn’t in the right frame of mind to set it up again, not to mention that I had probably moved on to another project.
I recently came across an article that shows you how to set up a Cloud Server with a Raspberry Pi and after quickly scanning the article, I believe that I could actually do this, although I don’t really know what I would do with it once it is set up. Maybe it’s the challenge of seeing if I could do it, so I am going to try it and see if I could accomplish the same goal with the Cloud Server as I did with the web server. I am providing a link to the article in the event you are curious about it. Wish me luck.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2022 - 16:50:08
Hey, good luck and hope you have some fun setting it all up. I enjoyed doing that sort of thing and made good use of my own web server. It was a good feeling, having my own secure corner of the Internet that I had complete control over. Of course, I did all of this before these “cloud services” were around, so it should be a much easier task to set one of these up today.
Good thing you bought your Raspberry Pi when you did. Today I’ve read that they’re not the easiest things to obtain, with all of the chip shortages going on.
Have fun!
Tuesday, September 6, 2022 - 17:42:50
Yes, I have also read about the chip shortages and have wondered when it will get back to “normal”. The last article I read said that there is quite a back up of orders for the Raspberry Pi but I also read that there are other “like” boards out there that seem to be more readily available.
Saturday, September 17, 2022 - 13:20:06
Update on this post…the link to download the Cloud Server software and I can’t seem to find the version that is included in the article I found. Luckily, I came across an article that shows how to setup an ad guard that can in be installed on the local server and prevent any ads from displaying on devices connected to my local network. Maybe I will give that a try.
Saturday, September 17, 2022 - 15:37:41
Hello Wineman,
I’m running FlatPress (Apache+PHP+SQL) + NextCloud + Samba (SMB) + FTP + Webmin (+Usermin) on a Pi4 with 4 GB RAM. All native without container image on Rasberry OS 64bit.
If you want, I can sort, translate and make my notes available to you.
However, I recommend you to use an [b]external portable SSD[/b]. This is significantly faster and has a significantly longer service life even with frequent write and read accesses.
Best Regards
Frank
Saturday, September 17, 2022 - 16:19:05
Frank, thank you for taking the time to post your comment. My FlatPress site is running on a shared host and so far have not run into any problems with that. I am aware of your NextCloud project as I registered for it on your site, but never received a response. I believe I was supposed to get a password? At any rate, I’m not sure that I would use the NextCloud application that much, but if you are willing to send me your notes, I would appreciate it. If nothing else, I would learn something new and that is always a good thing. Portable SSD’s are not that expensive these days, so although I don’t have one at the moment, I could certainly get one. I look forward to getting your notes. Perhaps the best place would be as a private message on the flatpress forum?