Did you miss me?

Probably not, but I was missing for while.  This site, all my sites, were down.  I have closed down the incredibly thirsty Enterprise Servers and spent some cash on duplicating the hardware that drives the weather station.  The big problem was justification of the running costs.  It was running into pounds per day.  So it was either figure out how to make money with this kit, or rethink.  Knocking the idea in 50 different directions I could not see any profit to be made, and even more potential problems, and for what.  It was rethink time then.

So, a dual processor, high performance, high availability server becomes an RPi2 with a hard disk attached.  But the crazy thing about this £30 box is its almost the same feel as its big cousins that sit, cold and silent, downstairs.

Even more bizarre, and it was only just this second I realised this, the new platform has thirty times more storage space, give or take, than the enterprise server!!  The hard disk is a Seagate USB magnetic drive of the 1TB variety.  Massively more than I really need here and twice as much as the weather station implementation.  I could have got a 500Gb and it would have saved me a grand total of £2.

So no redundancy in the design, although it is UPS backed, which the ESs were not.  So I will have to back it up more often.  If it really fell over I can switch back to the ES.  However, the weather station platform has been running for literally months.  What more can I ask for?