On 04/12/2015 10:55 PM, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>
>>
>> ... and I have given thought to a virtual server just haven't gotten
>> around to it yet. There is a gentleman in the Nordic countries that
>> has done just that.
>
> I'm renting a virtual server from 1&1.com. It's pretty nice in that I hav=
e
> complete control over it. It's running Centos. I can put anything I want
> on there. And it's fast and has fast network connectivity.

I'm using 1&1 for hosting, they're okay but I'm not too happy with them
being constantly label a spam provider. The VPS is cheap enough that it
might be a good solution for a few things. Thanks for pointing that out.

>> I'm also looking into experimenting with nfs for remote servers so I
>> can use a Raspberry Pi to deal with lots of data. What a large number
>> of folks have found (and don't realize) is that after a year of writing
>> data to the SD card they've "broken" the SD card. And they often need
>> to get a new one or the reload the original image to the SD (only to
>> repeat the process a few weeks later). I'm not actually interested in
>> doing this with my projects but just curious. I'd rather have a small
>> inexpensive hard drive that I write data to.
>>
>
> On this, is there a lot of writes to the same sector? It SEEMS that if th=
e
> SD is mostly read only and has log data slowly written to it, it should
> last a while. I think single level flash is good for 5,000 write cycles o=
r
> so. Multilevel is less. So, what is the issue being seen?

Most people playing with the the Pi are not well versed with Linux or Unix.
I doubt they know about read only and nothing about the logs or application=
s
that write to the filesystem.

I'm not sure exactly as I've never been given a chance to look at the card
but I suspect it's the way most logs are written which is probably a line a=
t
a time as opposed to a block mode. I'm not sure how dbs write their data. I=
f
you hammer an SD card writing a byte at a time (okay a line at a time) then
you kill the writes. In many Linux setups there's a ton of logs. I've been
busy writing my applications to write to a small RAM disk and to only keep
n-number of entries so as to not exceed the limited disk space. I've also
setup my syslog to write to the network instead of the disk.

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