I looked at transporters, they are about the same size (although less space in the "trunk"/back) but much more expensive to purchase. Almost exclusively diesels are available (with some rare exceptions), and their taxes are even higher than mine! Don't get me started on the VW Multivan or similar - beautiful cars, but extremely expensive.
VW Caddy we looked at and almost bought, but we had many bad encounters with dealers and instead bought from the private market.
The Kia Carnival was our weapon of choice in the USA, but that’s partially because at five kids (we’re winning!) you really want that eighth seat, and the Chrysler fold in floor (really nice) isn’t available on the hybrid.
From there you have to go to transit van or other commercial offering, but then nobody cares about you anymore because they assume you’re a private bus.
I've started recording loom videos of myself walking through features. It's turned into a great way of testing my own code as subtle errors are more obvious when you've effectively set up a spotlight and pointed a camera at what you've built. The voiceover on top them acts as a form of rubber duck for UX.
I feel there's a lack of respect for the person being interacted with in these ads. They all end too soon to show the consequences of transparent AI use and imply the other character has never heard of AI.
More accurate endings would be:
- "I thought we told Warren to stop uploading company emails to chatgpt."
- "A photo collage?!, after I spent a week building you that new console table for your birthday."
Nope, sorry that amazing car with 140mi range for almost $40k that was only sold in the EU and Japan was discontinued and Honda already shutdown the production line. For some reason, this car that was introduced 2 years after the Model 3 had poor sales.
You can think of docker files and other manifests as a highly structured and more direct-to-machine form of communication. Instead of a developer informing other developers to ensure that the dev machines and servers are upgraded to the right version of the JVM via a confluence page or slack message, that developer has left machine-readable instructions in a consistent format in a readily accessible place.
This is a good way to fix those problems with communication/practices/documentation and processes.
>This is a good way to fix those problems with communication/practices/documentation and processes.
No it's not because the dev who made the database-container forgot to inform you that you need the new jdbc.jar etc...it's the same just with one more layer.
Can confirm for the specific task of a Minecraft server that a Pi4 beats the pants off the first few tiers of DO VPS. You have to get up to a cost equivalent of nearly buying a (bottom-tier) Pi per month to get close.
One problem with these VPS is contention for physical CPU between multiple tenants. Lots of CPU context-switching. Kills performance. You can get dedicated-CPU VPS, but at that point you're basically renting a fraction of a real server and the prices tend to be high.
A $100-$150 old x86 workstation or server off Ebay will do even better (I run several things, including a Minecraft server, on mine, and it performs great for all of it), but your power use will be much higher than with a Pi.
Also, Raspberry Pi 4 (Model B) costs ~35 USD as a one-time cost, the 5 USD VM from DigitalOcean is per month. If you're planning to run something for longer than ~7 months, you'll save money (and get better CPU/IO [not network probably though] performance) by going with the Pi instead of DigitalOcean.
The SD card in the Raspberry has to be purchased + wears out pretty fast if you utilize it.
The VPS power bill is already paid with its price.
For the Raspberry you have to pay the power bill.
Here in Germany we now reach 40 Euro Cents/kWh.
5 Watts 24/7 are 17.52 Euro/Year
10 Watts 24/7 are 35.04 Euro/Year.
The Raspberry is somewhere between.
That is the reason why I replaced my Dell t30 Server with two Contabo VPS servers.
I also don't have to worry about my ISP screwing up my connection.
> The SD card in the Raspberry has to be purchased + wears out pretty fast if you utilize it.
Buy a high-endurance card or simply use external media if you have I/O heavy services you run on it.
> The VPS power bill is already paid with its price. For the Raspberry you have to pay the power bill.
True, but that cost is so small. Not sure if those German prices are accurate for most places, but where I live, it's nowhere near 0.40 EUR /kWh, so the cost of electricity per year is marginal at worst, unnoticeable at best.
> That is the reason why I replaced my Dell t30 Server with two Contabo VPS servers. I also don't have to worry about my ISP screwing up my connection.
Taking a look at Contabo (never seen them before), it seems their "Cloud VPS" is all virtual CPUs (not dedicated ones), so not really comparable.
That SD card quickly wearing out might be only relevant to Raspberrys before v4, because they could (try to) draw up to 15 W, while USB 2 could only deliver 2.5 or 7.5 W at best ?
I don't see how you can run a minecraft server on those specs. Just turning the draw distance will cause problems. Add a couple users and you are fucked.
It's fairly trivial to overclock Raspberry PI 4 (Model B) to ~2GHz if you have active cooling, and with a single one I've run Minecraft servers for ~5 players without hiccups. Of course it's not gonna be able to host large servers as the specs are low, but for the price, it works out well for small friend-groups.
It's hard! I only had two users consistently (myself and a friend, and occasionally guests but they taxed the system a lot so it wasn't very often), but I still even up having to fiddle around with a lot.
* As someone else said, overclocking helped, and I had a reasonable passive cooling case to help there.
* I used Paper instead of the normal Minecraft server, and I ended up spending a decent amount of time optimising the configuration. Paper by default comes with a bunch of optimisations, I enabled some more, although I also disabled some that were interfering with the more technical areas of Minecraft that I enjoy more.
* Whenever things started lagging, I went on a killing spree for our main farms, and that tended to work well enough. Most of our contraptions were turned off by default, or designed not to be too laggy. I also restarted the server every night, which worked reasonably well as a sort of ultimate GC.
If I were going to do it again more seriously, I'd probably get a cheap mini PC and use that instead, but for what it was - me and a friend rediscovering Minecraft after having not played it probably in about 5-10 years - the pi4 held up pretty damn well.
Adding to that, it is very good for wrapping around the ends of cords like chargers and headphones to stop them fraying (Apple products were very prone to this for a while)
F5 was very much a hardware company in a world of software vendors. The high and low end of the hardware market has shrunk rapidly as cloud has taken over. At high end, cloud providers like Amazon, Facebook and Google are building their own hardware[0] and at the other end, companies are increasingly just using those cloud providers.
For any large company, the easiest way to enter a new market is to just buy some of the competition. Of Nginx's competitors, most are either not "enterprise-y" enough (Caddy) or are already part of the CNCF (Traefik, Envoy). Really, I think the only other option could have been HaProxy.
