I mean, let’s be real, what could it actually power? I can think of a few applications but it certainly won’t be much.
- dhcp / dns / radius for the office
- maybe internet router, if they don’t have a too fast connection (>500 mbps)
- egress MTA
- intranet wiki or ticketing
- resource monitoring
But yah, I agree with others, the title is a bit click-bait.
Yeah but that said my question is serious, I've seen offices relying on servers and desktops .. when in fact their entire operations could fit on an iphone (circa iphone 10).
I have the feeling that a lot of information systems are not exchanging much but require huge payloads to coat things enough to keep cute in the html5/es6 era
Quite often what would have been done with a bunch of bytes on a dumb terminal now requires full blown windows + browser, network shares of useless files, mail servers holding massively redundant content
100% true. Some websites are more than 100 MB to fully load. That’s absolutely insane to me. Tons of JS to process on the client side and very often some Java / .net code on the server side. (I’m not mentioning PHP/Python/Perl because those end up being less resource hungry and could actually run on the Pi ;) )
- dhcp / dns / radius for the office - maybe internet router, if they don’t have a too fast connection (>500 mbps) - egress MTA - intranet wiki or ticketing - resource monitoring
But yah, I agree with others, the title is a bit click-bait.