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Turning the Raspberry Pi 4 into a Mini Server

Since the Raspberry Pi 4 came out last year, we now have an excellent candidate to base the mini server on. The faster processor and option for up to 8GB of RAM opens up more possibilities for what you can do with it, including now being more than capable as a general Linux desktop system, so with all that in mind…

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Preventing server overload: limit requests being processed

Recently at Bluecore I ran into a familiar situation: during brief periods of overload, all requests to a server were timing out. It was a catastrophic failure, where the server completely stopped serving. We added more capacity to prevent overload, but we also wanted to fix the server. Instead of exploding, it should…