[ale] NUC vs. RPi mail server

[Lightner, Jeff]

Of course to avoid the Keurig nonsense you could buy other machines designed to use original K cups like the Hamilton beach that also allows you to use those or put in loose coffee if you prefer.


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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Alex Carver
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 3:48 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] NUC vs. RPi mail server

On 2014-12-12 08:55, Ted W. wrote:

> I've been thinking on this very topic for a few weeks now myself. I'm
> currently hosting my mail server on a super economy RackSpace cloud
> instance that has the same specs (256MB RAM, 10GB disk, single proc)
> as a RaspberryPi and it runs fine there. Granted, I can count the
> number of spam messages I receive per month on one hand... A NUC
> sounds like overkill IMO. If you think you more power to handle some
> additional functionality, check out the BeagleBone Black or BananaPi.
> Both are just slightly more expensive with much better processors and
> more RAM. I've been interested in the BananaPi for some time as it's
> the same board as the Model B RPi with a SATA controller, GigE, a
> better processor and more RAM.

Good points.  The RPi B/B+ is 512MB of RAM already, four USB ports but only 100 MBit Ethernet (I don't think GigE is critical for a low volume email server anyway).  Even 700MHz is faster than the current P2's 233 MHz and 512 MB of RAM is more than I've got installed (180 MB).  USB 2.0 hard drives would run just as fast as or faster than the IDE drives in the P2.  Given all that comparison the RPi would probably be just fine.
 The only other thing I use the current server for is a remote log destination (syslog-ng) for various devices and an MRTG monitor for the main router.
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