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Raspberry Pi Server Essentials
Transform your Raspberry Pi into a server for hosting websites, games, or even your Bitcoin network This book is targeted towards all Raspberry Pi enthusiasts who are interested in exploring the potential of Pi as a server. Even if you have no prior experience with the Raspberry Pi, you can pick up this book and develop a wide range of projects. Raspberry Pi makes a good server that facilitates you with eminently achievable to the massively ambitious ideas. It is a capable computer that can perform tasks that involve spreadsheets, word processing, and games. It also plays high-definition video. If you are looking for a way to set up a low cost web server, primarily to be used as a testing environment or to store files, then Raspberry Pi is perfect for you. This book demonstrates Raspberry Pi's ability to perform tasks that a mini computer would, in an efficient manner using a minimum number of power resources. You can connect your Raspberry Pi to the Internet at home to share files, host multi-player games, or even host a website. Starting with the pre-requisites and installation of Pi, you will learn how to setup Pi as a web server with MySQL. This book progresses with building Pi as a file server and knowing about using the various file transfer protocols. It also guides you to install Bitcoin/ Litecoin and set up Bitcoin wallet. You will learn how to stream a webcam to watch movies in HD or camera module. Complete your journey by learning how to use Pi as a game server by using basic console commands to get graphical content.
116 pages, Paperback
First published February 7, 2014
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July 21, 2014
Raspberry Pi is often touted as a boon for classroom computing. I have often seen scenarios where several folks have purchased a Raspberry Pi and after a few sessions with it have not utilized it much. Well sure the hobbyists are busy building sensor networks but most people need to understand how to employ their Pi for tasks that are likely to be more useful to them, in and around their computing needs.
This is where “Raspberry Pi Server Essentials” book comes in. It contains several chapters that help you to use your Pi for a specific purpose.
The initial chapters focus on the basics of setting up your Pi, Operating System installation/updates and setting up the networking. This forms a good base to then explore the remaining chapters.
The next set of chapter focus on a specific use of the Pi. The chapters range from:
Using the Pi as a Web Application Server
Setting up a File Server
Setting up a Game Server
Media Center
and even a Bit Coin mining machine (Hope you get lucky with that one!)
For households that have multiple devices, setting up a File Server or Game Server powered by your Pi is a great way to streamline things. In fact, you could jump to any chapter, if the specific purpose of that chapter is what you want to use your Pi with.
The instructions in each of the chapters are very precise. Right from downloading the software, configuring and running it, the instructions are good and focus just on the task, which is how it should be for a book of this kind.
Overall, this is a good book to explore practical uses that you could put to use immediately for your Pi.
This is where “Raspberry Pi Server Essentials” book comes in. It contains several chapters that help you to use your Pi for a specific purpose.
The initial chapters focus on the basics of setting up your Pi, Operating System installation/updates and setting up the networking. This forms a good base to then explore the remaining chapters.
The next set of chapter focus on a specific use of the Pi. The chapters range from:
Using the Pi as a Web Application Server
Setting up a File Server
Setting up a Game Server
Media Center
and even a Bit Coin mining machine (Hope you get lucky with that one!)
For households that have multiple devices, setting up a File Server or Game Server powered by your Pi is a great way to streamline things. In fact, you could jump to any chapter, if the specific purpose of that chapter is what you want to use your Pi with.
The instructions in each of the chapters are very precise. Right from downloading the software, configuring and running it, the instructions are good and focus just on the task, which is how it should be for a book of this kind.
Overall, this is a good book to explore practical uses that you could put to use immediately for your Pi.
July 29, 2014
Review - "Raspberry Pi Server Essentials" by Piotr J. Kula
This book teaches us how to transform our Raspberry Pi into a server for hosting websites, games, or even a Bitcoin network. This book is mainly targeted at novices with a keen sense of hacking and learning things. Almost the entire book is explained using the power of command lines over SSH. The book starts by explaining the hardware prerequisites and installing Raspbian. In the next chapter, we learn how to connect to the Internet and how to solve some common problems for home users, how to benchmark our network and try to isolate any network-related issues. We then move on to learn how to keep the Pi up to date and use the extra features of the GPU.
Next we deal with using nginx, php and mysql and also how to set up a file sever and use filezilla. We also learn a few essentials about setting up a game server and use another non-default repository. It touches upon bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as well and how to pool and mine them. In the next chapter, we learn how to stream video in various formats to various platforms, installing and using GStreamer, compiling and using FFmpeg, compiling a custom version of nginx-rtmp, and streaming using RTMP FLV and MPEGTS UDP. Fnally it concludes by teaching us how to play audio, make slideshows, and watch videos from the console.
The purpose of this book is to get you started with the Raspberry Pi. It covers many different topics to demonstrate the flexibility of the Raspberry Pi and I think it succeeds. Give it a try!
Get the book here - http://bit.ly/1kCai1s
This book teaches us how to transform our Raspberry Pi into a server for hosting websites, games, or even a Bitcoin network. This book is mainly targeted at novices with a keen sense of hacking and learning things. Almost the entire book is explained using the power of command lines over SSH. The book starts by explaining the hardware prerequisites and installing Raspbian. In the next chapter, we learn how to connect to the Internet and how to solve some common problems for home users, how to benchmark our network and try to isolate any network-related issues. We then move on to learn how to keep the Pi up to date and use the extra features of the GPU.
Next we deal with using nginx, php and mysql and also how to set up a file sever and use filezilla. We also learn a few essentials about setting up a game server and use another non-default repository. It touches upon bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as well and how to pool and mine them. In the next chapter, we learn how to stream video in various formats to various platforms, installing and using GStreamer, compiling and using FFmpeg, compiling a custom version of nginx-rtmp, and streaming using RTMP FLV and MPEGTS UDP. Fnally it concludes by teaching us how to play audio, make slideshows, and watch videos from the console.
The purpose of this book is to get you started with the Raspberry Pi. It covers many different topics to demonstrate the flexibility of the Raspberry Pi and I think it succeeds. Give it a try!
Get the book here - http://bit.ly/1kCai1s
July 31, 2014
If you want to try hands-on about installing several servers such WEB, DB, open source games, Streaming, and playing audio on Raspberry Pi, this book will bring you a good and quick hands-on step by step. But, it is focusing on application, there are little study about H/W component and its architecture, programming, nor server architecture. However, If you are a beginner with Raspberry Pi, it will be the first step to have fun with it by paying at least $55 ($10: Book, $35: Raspberry Pi, $10: SD card). Besides, I recommend you should buy the kindle edition.
This is quick review for each chapter.
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi
Summrized hardware requirement, essential peripherals and installing OS. You can find what you need to enjoy Raspberry Pi at the essentials peripehrals section.
Chapter 2: Preparing the Network
Wireless configuration, benchmarking tools and Internet configuration are great and helpful
Chapter 3: Configuring Extra Features
Hardware watchdog is interesting to monitor its status.
Chapter 4: Using a Fast PHP Web Server and Database
Summirized minimum setup and configuration to implement LAMP servers.
Chapter 5: Setting Up a File Server
If you need a File server, you should read it.
Chapter 6: Setting Up the Game Servers
Here, it's getting more playful by installing open source games.
Chapter 7: Bitcoins ? Pools and Mining
I am not interested in Bitcoins and mining, so I skipped. But, it might be interesting to measure how much CPU is used during the mining.
Chapter 8: Streaming Live HD Video
Short hands-on about how to stream video by installing and compiling.
It was fun because I've never had experienced in streaming and gave me a quick insight how to stream.
Chapter 9: Setting Up a Media Center
This chapter also shows streaming and playing audio and was fun to try to play audio and make slideshows.
This is quick review for each chapter.
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi
Summrized hardware requirement, essential peripherals and installing OS. You can find what you need to enjoy Raspberry Pi at the essentials peripehrals section.
Chapter 2: Preparing the Network
Wireless configuration, benchmarking tools and Internet configuration are great and helpful
Chapter 3: Configuring Extra Features
Hardware watchdog is interesting to monitor its status.
Chapter 4: Using a Fast PHP Web Server and Database
Summirized minimum setup and configuration to implement LAMP servers.
Chapter 5: Setting Up a File Server
If you need a File server, you should read it.
Chapter 6: Setting Up the Game Servers
Here, it's getting more playful by installing open source games.
Chapter 7: Bitcoins ? Pools and Mining
I am not interested in Bitcoins and mining, so I skipped. But, it might be interesting to measure how much CPU is used during the mining.
Chapter 8: Streaming Live HD Video
Short hands-on about how to stream video by installing and compiling.
It was fun because I've never had experienced in streaming and gave me a quick insight how to stream.
Chapter 9: Setting Up a Media Center
This chapter also shows streaming and playing audio and was fun to try to play audio and make slideshows.
November 24, 2015
good intro but outdated to an extent that will confuse new raspberry pi owners.
good for skimming and knowing what is there to be done with the raspberry pi, then researching what new tools/options for doing such stuff.
good for skimming and knowing what is there to be done with the raspberry pi, then researching what new tools/options for doing such stuff.
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