Baking a Pi

[Random32]

First off I'm such a noob so I'm probably going to say stupid things.

I want to try to use a Raspberry Pi to be some sort of server. I want to be able to upload files to it over my local network and make it so that the contents are accessible to everybody. The purpose is to share a few files with friends without going through the obnoxious process of uploading to Mediafire or whatever. It's also more convenient for me to do this if I have to update certain things and have them re-download it. Maybe I'm missing something here and maybe this might not be all that more efficient than uploading the files to another file-sharing service, but I feel like this would be a cool project and maybe I could make something more out of it in the future.

Anyways, I was thinking about installing Raspbian and using SSH and FTP. But I read somewhere about using http instead of ftp but I honestly don't know how the hell that works lol. I want this to be accessible using a normal domain that I could probably just use from No-IP or something. I don't really know where to start with this. Can someone explain the setup process of the server itself step by step like you would to someone who knows nothing about networking or anything to do with the web (because that's me)? I'm assuming it would start with something with MySQL...

[Guest Generallee]

it isn't really worth the hassle, the PI isn't powerful enough to be a decent server and will probably rip in pieces when two people access it simultaneously 

[Random32]

1 minute ago, Generallee said:

it isn't really worth the hassle, the PI isn't powerful enough to be a decent server and will probably rip in pieces when two people access it simultaneously 

Oh really? I thought it was alright with a couple people accessing it. Actually, now that I think about it, I don't think more than one person will access it at a time. I would be uploading files and after that's over 1-2 friends would download them and I doubt they would ever do it at the exact same time. If the Pi is still as insufficient in this case what route should I go for? I really want to do some DIY. Last case scenario would be buying an entire new mITX build for a couple hundred. But then again, I still don't know what OS to use and how to get a web server started. That's where I would still need he

[NumLock21]

I thought you're literally going to bake a raspberry pie. So disappointed.

 

[ozilfanboyadhitya]

Its a Arm based board with just over a gig of Ram. It does'nt even have a Gigabit ethernet port, the existing one is connected is wired via USB. Definetly not recommended for a server. Plus you have mount your drives vis USB again the bottleneck!

[Random32]

7 minutes ago, ozilfanboyadhitya said:

Its a Arm based board with just over a gig of Ram. It does'nt even have a Gigabit ethernet port, the existing one is connected is wired via USB. Definetly not recommended for a server. Plus you have mount your drives vis USB again the bottleneck!

I wasn't looking for stunning performance. Just simple file transfers ranging from 5-50mb ish and having 1-2 people download them ever.  But meh I guess it really is underpowered now that I think of it.

 

11 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

I thought you're literally going to bake a raspberry pie. So disappointed.

 

Sorry D:

[NumLock21]

Just now, Random32 said:

I wasn't looking for stunning performance. Just simple file transfers ranging from 5-50mb ish and having 1-2 people download them ever.  But meh I guess it really is underpowered now that I think of it.

 

Sorry D:

It's okay.

[ozilfanboyadhitya]

1 minute ago, Random32 said:

I wasn't looking for stunning performance. Just simple file transfers ranging from 5-50mb ish and having 1-2 people download them ever.  But meh I guess it really is underpowered now that I think of it.

 

Sorry D:

You could just get a core two duo machine, they are pretty much the same cost! and gives better peformance