Hello fellow Soylentils, I could use some of your insights and suggestions.
I am looking for a lean, mean, and safe open source solution that implements a small blog where I can rant and rave to my heart's delight to my two followers.
To set the scene, I am not looking for something big and/or unwieldy, which basically rules out the major platforms like Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress. The software is going to be self hosted on my existing web server, which already runs Linux with Apache2, MySQL, PHP, Perl, and PostgreSQL (LAMPPP?) on a Debian platform.
I would like the following features:
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I am not familiar with the minimum resource requirements for running SoylentNews, but if it would not reasonably fit on a single RPi, maybe adding one or two more would suffice?
What suggestions do YOU have for our fellow Soylentil?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 29 2019, @04:34PM (2 children)
You could technically run a rehash instance on a RPi 1b but you would need a fair sized SD card or a USB drive for storage. It wouldn't be up to huge traffic loads but it'd handle friends and family just peachy keen even if you have a lot of friends. Mind you, you'd have to do some tweaking to the Apache and MySQL configs to trim them down to manageable RAM levels. As for comments, editors can enable or disable them per-story or globally at their whim, we just don't.
If it's something you need before the end of the year though, find something else. It'll be at least that long before we have another update and we're sure the install works entirely correctly again.
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(Score: 2) by kazzie on Monday July 29 2019, @08:39PM (1 child)
Are you thinking of the launch RPi 1b with 256MB RAM, or the revised 1b with 512MB? (I've got one of each.)
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 29 2019, @11:24PM
Either. It's just a matter of how brutally you have to ride herd on Apache/MySQL configs.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.