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EbayPolice
By EbayPolice
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7 minutes ago, EbayPolice said:

Hello i am looking to create a bidding website (ebay kinda like) and i do not expect more than 50 visitors at once. Is it possible to use raspberry pi 3 cluster to host the website?

Yes, but you might as well just buy webhosting from a company like nfo servers for 2.50 a month.

My native language is C++

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Sure, all of the LAMP stack runs on a rPi

The thing about Raspberry Pis and most other ARM SBCs is that you have to use either SD cards or something connected through USB 2.0 for storage, which I don't know how much sense that makes for a serious website, where you're going to want to have some redundancy.

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The Raspberry Pi 3 is faster than the fastest (primarily Sun SPARC-based) machines that eBay was using when they started out life in the mid 1990s.  SD storage, of course, blows away the hard drives of the era. 

 

There's no reason, your programming skills notwithstanding, why that you couldn't do it. 

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This is a really bad idea for a beginner project. Try to think of something that doesn't involve monetary transactions. There are so many ways you could get yourself in hot water dealing with bidding and handling peoples money. If you think that running a bidding website on a raspberry pie is a remotely good idea... well its not. Look at what other people have done, follow some tutorials if you want to learn web programming. But hold off on things that involve taking peoples money/credit card #'s (things you get sued over) until you know a little more about the field.

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Well I don't know how well the usb2 will handle all the databases but the networking and cpu should handle the traffic and LAMP. I don't think Ubuntu has a server version for the Pi but you could run the gui version and just add in apache, MySQL, php, etc 

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