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Raspberry Pi 2 Server Essentials

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi 2 Server Essentials Transform your Raspberry Pi into a multi-purpose web server that supports your entire multimedia world with this practical and accessible tutorial!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
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ISBN-13 9781783985692
Length 174 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Piotr J Kula Piotr J Kula
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Preface 1. Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi 2. Preparing a Network FREE CHAPTER 3. Configuring Extra Features 4. Using Fast Web Servers and Databases 5. Setting Up the Raspberry Pi as a File Server 6. Setting Up Game Servers 7. Streaming Live HD Video 8. Setting Up the Pi as a Media Center Server 9. Running Your Pi from a Battery's Power Source 10. Windows IoT Core 11. Running Your ownCloud 12. The Internet of Things – Sensors in the Cloud Index

Apache versus nginx versus Kestrel

With the release of .NET 5, Microsoft has managed to bring a full stack of C# deployment targets to Linux. ASP web applications, such as the popular ASP.MVC, can be hosted on Linux by using Kestrel, a development web server based on libuv. Libuv was primarily developed for use by Node.js and focuses on asynchronous input/output.

Nginx is still the first choice in embedded devices for managing HTTP traffic as an extremely fast and lightweight reverse proxy server, ahead of Apache.

Apache remains one of the more popular HTTP servers due to the fact that it comes bundled with images, but is also extremely easy to install and configure. However, it is typically used on full desktop machines or servers because it requires a lot of resources. It is not recommended to use Apache on a Raspberry Pi or other embedded device, and it will not be covered in this book.

From the Netcraft report, we can see that the three top servers are Apache, Microsoft, and nginx. Microsoft...

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