[Freedombox-discuss] Let's decentralize: Hardware recommendations

[Yves L]

Hi

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> De: "f" <fgro at riseup.net>
> Envoyé: Mardi 3 Novembre 2015 18:53:32
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> Having never used such a device before what are your experiences in
> terms of performance with these small machines? What do I need to be
> aware of, especially when running  multiple services? As I would like
> to
> run / help to get to run the Diaspora app on Freedombox I'm thinking
> more power (cpu/ram) is probably better than less.
> 

In my experience running on a Beaglebone black, it is capable of running most day to day needs (mail,website,php..) except for big php applications like Apache+wordpress or owncloud. They can run but are a bit sluggish. Apache and Mysql will definitely need to be tuned to use less CPU/memory.

Regards

Yves