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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (12 children)

I stopped reading after this line.

Raspberry Pi won't do unfortunately, unless you run up to 4 lightweight containers.

Does the author know how much compute power a Raspberry Pi 5 has? If the software that just hosts personal data can't run in Raspberry Pi 5, that should be a terrible software. For most people and their families, a RPi5 is enough to host anything that they would ever need.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (6 children)

How good is it? I have a raspi5 and wonder where it's limit is

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Well I run an ntp stratum 1 server handling 2800 requests a second on average (3.6mbit/s total average traffic), and a flight radar24 reporting station, plus some other rarely used services.

The fan only comes on during boot, I've never heard it used in normal operation. Load averages 0.3-0.5. Most of that is Fr24. Chrony takes <5% of a single core usually.

It's pretty capable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait what? Do I understand that correctly? You have a raspberry pi with a direct network connection to an atomic clock? That's so awesome!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No. A GPS (with PPS) hat. That counts as a stratum 0 time source, making the NTP server stratum 1.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah, gotcha.

Is there like a list where you can enter your server so that other people use it as an ntp server? Or how did you advertise it to have 2800 requests flooding in?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm in the ntppool.org pool for the UK. It randomly assigns servers which could be any stratum really (but there is quality control on the time provided). I also have stratum 2 servers in .fi, and .fr (which are dedicated servers I also use for other things, rather than a raspberry pi).

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