The Egg a Tizen Powered Personal Web Server
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In embedded tech news, The Egg first discussed last year is back. Still powered by Tizen Linux, now running on Intel quad core Atom.
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Seems ridiculous to run a web server from something so under powered.
A few hundred connections and its down for the count.
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You'd be surprised who runs web servers from less.
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@DustinB3403 Unless you are running a big website and mysql all in the same box, there's really not THAT much of a need for more Ram / CPU, is there?
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That's a quad core CPU. You could handle, in theory, twice as many users as MangoLassi can. That would like be tens of millions of monthly hits without breaking a sweat.
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@mlnews Even with 1G of ram?
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That's a really cool idea, but they should have made it cheaper. The atom is way overkill, I'm 100% positive you could get the job done with a cheap broadcom SOC or similar for way less money.
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If you had a large database to load into it, yeah, more might be good. But serving web pages you could easily do a few hundred million a month with 400MB of RAM if they were static pages or from a small database.
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@MattSpeller said:
That's a really cool idea, but they should have made it cheaper. The atom is way overkill, I'm 100% positive you could get the job done with a cheap broadcom SOC or similar for way less money.
A little ARM would have been nice.
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@mlnews still overkill but absolutely a cheaper better idea. I'm wondering if someone got some Intel dev cash.
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Some of y'all seem to forget the early 'naughties, running webservers on actual junk.
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@MattSpeller Nah. My Pops and I run a Web Server, and IRC server and NAT setup for our network on NT 4 (all in the same box)... Thing sounded like a freight train, looked like frankenstein, and ran like a freight train.
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This is actually surprisingly powerful for what they are doing with it. Quad cores for a little thing like that? I wonder if it ever gets utilized in any serious way.
