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Raspberry Pi Server Essentials
Raspberry Pi Server Essentials

Raspberry Pi Server Essentials: If you want to use Raspberry Pi as a server, this is the book that makes it all possible. Covering a wide range of projects – from network storage to a game server – you'll learn in easy, engaging steps.

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This is an engaging, easy to follow guide for developing a wide range of server projects with Raspberry Pi. 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.

What you will learn

  • Use Raspberry Pi as a low cost network storage device
  • Configure a webserver using PHP and work with databases
  • Host multiplayer games by using Pi as a game server to get graphical content
  • Share files and use hardware RAID on the Pi
  • Mine Bitcoins and make your own digital currency
  • Turn your Raspberry Pi into a media server to stream media to your network
  • Enable extra features such as installing a wireless adapter, enabling the hardware watchdog, and updating and upgrading the distro

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Publication date : Feb 10, 2014
Length: 116 pages
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W. Bryan Thrasher Jul 19, 2014
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I learned a lot from this book. It covers a wide range of issues that face users when setting up a Pi to for a lot of the common uses.
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Romin K. Irani Jul 21, 2014
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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 ServerSetting up a File ServerSetting up a Game ServerMedia Centerand 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.
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Lisa Smith Feb 23, 2024
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I bought this for my son so he could use it in his job.
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David H Apr 13, 2014
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What a great little book. Whether it be turning your Raspberry Pi into a media centre,web server, streaming server or game server, this book provides concise instructions on how to do it and all in one resource.Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the Pi (much of which I skipped as I've set up a Pi with Raspbian several times), but there were some useful section about peripherals you can use with the Pi. Chapter 2 then dealt with networking (Wifi and LAN) but included a very useful section on Dynamic DNS allowing you to access your Pi from the outside world even if your IP address changes. Chapter 3 deals with configuring some extra features (some useful and needed for later chapters). These 3 chapters prepare you and the Pi for the chapters that follow.Chapter 4 provides instruction on setting up a PHP webserver and database. I went a bit further than this and installed Wordpress onto the Pi and had it up and running perfectly! A file server is set up in chapter 5. Learning how to mount/remount drives was a great bit of information for me. Chapter 6 and 7 cover setting up a game server and Bitcoin pools and mining. Neither of which I have much interest in but they provided some useful background information on the topics. Chapter 8 covers streaming video. I didn't realise it was possible with a Pi. An ideal solution if you want something small in a remote location! Lastly, chapter 9 deals with setting up the Pi ad a media centre. Again, very useful chapter. The only thing missing from the Pi in this regard (not the book) is Netflix. Maybe one day!I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Easy to follow. Concise instructions. And having the instructions all in one place is great. For me, this book is a keeper.
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Joe Feb 26, 2015
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The book is intended for beginnings, and it's good with that. However, I went through it doing other things in less than an hour. I was hoping to learn how to allow two devices to connect to the Pi server and communicate with each other, using wifi. However, PhP and a webserver was provided, and I would rather use Python. It is good for setting up a few different types of networks, but there is nothing advanced offered here, and there is limited utility for more advanced users.
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