Plus brief mentions of what else Raspberry Pi’s can and have been used for by Ian
For anyone interested in knowing where this website is being hosted, Ian set the website up on a Raspberry PI 3B+, it is a WordPress site running on a LAMP ( Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP ) Server at Ian’s home.
Ian used to run other websites on shared hosting platforms which usually cost between £2 and £12 per month in the UK. Ian had a spare RPi 3B+ which wasn’t in use and a spare SSD that was used in a previous project, as Ian is retired now, he has the time to ‘tinker’, so thought he would see if he could self host a website. On the page LAMP Server Hardware and Software, Ian details what he would use to build another webserver.
The data is all on a USB SSD powered via an external USB3 hub, though the RPi3B is limited to USB2 speeds. Raspberry 3B+ claim to have a gigabit ethernet port, however this is actually not the true through put, moving to a RPi4B will also improve this.
In the future Ian is considering moving the website onto a more powerful RPi 4B to gain a slight increase in processor speed, but to also gain an increase access speed to the SSD by utilising the USB3 ports on the RPi 4B.
The RPi hosting this website is on a segregated VLAN. The website uses a regular schedule to backup to cloud storage. All inbound and outbound traffic is actively monitored. Due to the daily multiple attempts to hack into this website, the RPi webserver is now behind three layers of firewall.
28th March, 2022 – This website is now running on a Raspberry ( RPi ) 4B – We managed to source one, even with the supply shortage. The SSD is now able to run at full USB 3.0 speeds, so there should be a slight performance increase. The actual move from the RPi 3B+ to the RPI 4B was very simple, just a matter of taking the SD card from the 3B+ to the 4B, then changing the DMAC address in the router, so the 4B now has the same IP address that the 3B+ did. The actual routing internally is done by the Reverse Proxy server.
We moved this website to IONOS and rebuilt it as of January 2023.
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