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How can I use GIT in my own server?

Is a Raspberry Pi efficient enough as a home NAS, Git, and web server, or should you use better hardware?

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    I use a raspberry pi as a home NAS. It should be fine running those other things. Keep in mind that the ethernet port on the pi is only 100Mb/s. I am assuming that this is basically a personal server, and you won't be dealing with any kind of large volume of traffic. You won't be serving thousands of connections using a raspberry pi. It's simple: a pi and a big USB hard drive running a samba share. Not too difficult to set up. Installing a web server and git server should also be easy with the raspbian package repository. One thing that I would warn you is that you need to get a good SD card for you main file system. I had a crappy (Amazon brand) one that would constantly get in some corrupted state and I would have to restore a backup. Now I have a Sandisk and it hasn't given me any problems.

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The pi is good enough for light duty. I use one to host Time Machine backups, SMB file shares, CUPS access to a printer, Media Hosting via MiniDLNA and pyTivo and a few other tasks. Its IO is limited by the USB2 bus speed and the Ethernet is on the same bus as the USB disks. It is cheap and runs a full linux debian stack. It should be ok for 2 to 3 users.

Sal Denaro

Yes, the raspberry pi is powerful enough, the biggest bottleneck is going to be the internet speedI can stream fine using samba/nfs to a single computer, so if streaming is possible, it should be good enough for a NAS solution.Disclaimer: I have an older model raspberry with 512mb ram, there is a newer model now, and a more powerful processor)

Steven Koffijberg

Yes it is. If you're streaming movies from it from multiple devices then it can be slow but if your use is quite light then its perfectly adequate.

Gary Hall

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