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Discussion on: Make a Linux dev server for less than 50$/life 😱

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Sarthak Sharma

Well better than a 5$ digitalocean server.

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Slava

How did you measure that? In my experience, DigitalOcean has some pretty great performance. Raspberry PI uses a low power ARM processor, DO has Xeon processors. My DO hosts a build server, don’t know a PI could manage.

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Sarthak Sharma

Well, as I mentioned it’s good for small team managing small projects. It can easily take the load.

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Slava

You said it was better than DigitalOcean in terms of performance

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Sarthak Sharma

Yes, better than a 5$ server

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Slava

Yeah going to step in now and dispel this misinformation. DigitalOcean has x86 processors clocking at 2.4GHZ, the Raspberry PI has a 1.4GHZ ARM CPU. DigitalOcean features DDR4 RAM, the PI is on LPDDR2.

You simply cannot even compare them. You're unlikely to ever hit 1/10th of the performance a DO VPS offers.

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Sarthak Sharma

Totally Agree with you. But the thing is in most of the cases Beginner developer doesn't even need that much of processing speed to run their small projects and the fact is 5$ is the least you can pay. So It's better than 5$ digital ocean droplet, isn't it?

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Slava

Whatever computer you're using in the moment is likely better. Dev servers are usually supposed to have much better performance than any other device, not less.

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Sarthak Sharma

I understand that but still for a small team with small project there won’t be problem. Trust me.

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Debashis Dip

wait, really? or sarcasm? :3

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Sarthak Sharma

Well, it’s kind of real bro.

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David Salter

That's fantastic. What tools do you use to do dev on it ?

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Sarthak Sharma

Nginx, NodeJS and MongoDB so Far.

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Gijo Varghese

No, no way it better than a $5 DO server