Laptop or Raspberry PI?

[Huhhoo]

Hi everyone.

I have a question. I haven't done much testing with website hosting and I was looking to host a few websites on an old laptop with an Athlon 2 processor and 4 GB of ram or maybe a Raspberry pi.

What can I expect speed wise?

 

[Fire]

Depends on the specs of the pi and laptop, along with what kind of website you are hosting and your configuration. Also your home internet speed. But hosting a website on your laptop is alot of hassle, when you can get a VPS for a few $ a month.

 

[Huhhoo]

Depends on the specs of the pi and laptop, along with what kind of website you are hosting and your configuration. Also your home internet speed. But hosting a website on your laptop is alot of hassle, when you can get a VPS for a few $ a month.

Of course I was going to install centos 7 and then prob install Plesk or Cpanel and then go that way. Not that hard to manage after that.

Internet wise, it would colocated so, it would be fast internet.

 

[Shattered]

Of course I was going to install centos 7 and then prob install Plesk or Cpanel and then go that way. Not that hard to manage after that.

Internet wise, it would colocated so, it would be fast internet.

Sounds extremely expensive..

A webhost would usually only charge a few bucks, and would have everything already setup.[DOUBLEPOST=1496787333][/DOUBLEPOST]Aside from that.

I doubt a laptop would survive days and days straight. They are not built to be powered on that long.

 

[Huhhoo]

Sounds extremely expensive..

A webhost would usually only charge a few bucks.

Yeah, but please. That's boring.

 

[Fire]

If you really want to go down that road, buy a cheap server. You can get one for $100 or less on eBay. Laptops arent built for 24/7 operation.

 

[Huhhoo]

If you really want to go down that road, buy a cheap server. You can get one for $100 or less on eBay. Laptops arent built for 24/7 operation.

Meh. Fine.

 

[Ian.D]

Im currently selling a
Supermicro
Intel Xeon X3470
12GB DDR3 RAM
250GB HDD
$110 In Dallas, TX with free month colocation. As others have already said, those builds you are considering aren't ideal.

 

[Huhhoo]

Im currently selling a
Supermicro
Intel Xeon X3470
12GB DDR3 RAM
250GB HDD
$110 In Dallas, TX with free month colocation. As others have already said, those builds you are considering aren't ideal.

its not really my ideal setup. I want to see how it will work.

 

[RantsRoamer]

If those are your choices, go laptop. To limited on the rasberry.

 

[Jake4]

Of course I was going to install centos 7 and then prob install Plesk or Cpanel and then go that way. Not that hard to manage after that.

Internet wise, it would colocated so, it would be fast internet.

your going to colocate a laptop? LOL!

 

[Huhhoo]

your going to colocate a laptop? LOL!

Yep Sounds fun

 

[Jake4]

Yep Sounds fun

No datacenters will allow that unless they've been smoking kush.

 

[to_er]

If you do choose RPi, https://raspberry-hosting.com/en
BTw, it might host a few low volume sites using lighttpd or something and not fit for what you're upto.

 

[Fire]

PI's are actually quite good for hosting small sites, email servers etc. They are fairly reliable, cheap and best of all, use very little power. Making them cheap to run.

 

[Huhhoo]

If you do choose RPi, https://raspberry-hosting.com/en
BTw, it might host a few low volume sites using lighttpd or something and not fit for what you're upto.

Thank you for the suggestion. The reason I want to colocate a laptop is because it's stupid and funny. It's just something to do and maybe it will be fun. Idk.

 

[Lord Flo]

Thank you for the suggestion. The reason I want to colocate a laptop is because it's stupid and funny. It's just something to do and maybe it will be fun. Idk.

Good luck!

 

[Huhhoo]

Good luck!

Thank You! I'll be the only one who can say, yeah. My website is hosted on a colocated laptop

 

[Ajdin]

Thank You! I'll be the only one who can say, yeah. My website is hosted on a colocated laptop

You'll be the only one saying it because it's definitely not the way it should be done. I'm not even sure how you'll be mounting your laptop in a rack? Pretty sure no datacenter will allow you to just stick a laptop in there as that isn't safe nor efficient.

Let's also not forget, colocation isn't cheap either.

 

[Huhhoo]

You'll be the only one saying it because it's definitely not the way it should be done. I'm not even sure how you'll be mounting your laptop in a rack? Pretty sure no datacenter will allow you to just stick a laptop in there as that isn't safe nor efficient.

Let's also not forget, colocation isn't cheap either.

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