Setting up a server farm with few RPi

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I want to set up a server farm with few Raspberry Pis (at least two).

Although there is detail about the load balancer, there isn't much about setting up the Pis...

I would like to know what do do with the Pis, I heard about few softwares like GlusterFS...

It would be awesome if someone could direct me what to do or send me a good tutorial that will help me with this task...

Thanks, Sid

Beware the pi is not very well suited to this because of the limited network throughput, unless it is just for experimental/educational purposes. Like a bonsai tree farm, could be very interesting but has no commercial potential lumber wise. — goldilocks, Commented Aug 10, 2016 at 19:28
@goldilocks: there's a bonsai shop near where I live that sells those little trees for $50-$1600 a piece. Now you've got me thinking if a "bonsai server farm" could be economically feasible in anyway... — Jacobm001, Commented Aug 10, 2016 at 20:12
@Jacobm001 Yes because how else would you build a million dollar tiny home? Carpe diem -- "Boutique cloud services" could be an emerging market >_> — goldilocks, Commented Aug 10, 2016 at 20:43

dbmitch · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-10 18:04:46Z

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Very good article from reputable Make magazine at:

Step by step with diagrams, configuration and code

answered Aug 10, 2016 at 18:04

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Perfect, that's what I was looking for! Thanks a lot!
– SidS
Commented Aug 10, 2016 at 18:08
Excellent - sounds like a great project. Do you consider this post as an answer or useful response?
– dbmitch
Commented Aug 10, 2016 at 18:35
Maybe a bit of both...
– SidS
Commented Aug 11, 2016 at 7:38
Hah - ok - I was trying to be not so subtle about upvoting my answer or even markign it as an answer. But as an aside - I just read a great excerpt from a Pi hardware book about full setup and config of 4 Pis using Apache Spark with a code comparison of doiing pi (the number) calculation using Monte Carlo simulation. Cluster was 185 times faster
– dbmitch
Commented Aug 11, 2016 at 16:12
Wow, sounds amazing! I am planning to make a web server with raspberry pi s as workers and an old PC running Ubuntu as a load balancer. This idea is from an article/tutorial that I read about... But, I'm still 14 years old and I have a lot to learn!
– SidS
Commented Aug 11, 2016 at 22:24

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