Trying to build out Kubernetes cluster to handle application server (rpi or x86?)
So I’m currently building an app for iOS and android that will need to call to an SQL server and possibly some other services hosted by this server. I don’t really want to go AWS or anything cloud based yet as I don’t know how many people I’ll get on and I don’t feel like having a ballooned cloud bill come in cause I messed up something or got botted. I have 1gig up and down at my home so network should be good enough for now. Big thing is I’m debating between building out a cluster of old dell micro PC’s or just getting a bunch of raspberry pi’s together and some nvme drives. Alternatively, I have some threadeipper 1920 and 1950 CPUs but I’m concerned about power draw considering I live in a condo and I have tripped my power breaker before when I spun up my machine learning rig and it drew more than 1800W total cause my wife was also on her gaming PC. The mini-PC’s and Rpi’s seem like a safer bet but maybe I’m mislead.
Main challenges are my SQL database will need to store images and I’m not sure how that will affect hardware considerations.
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