Thanks for replying. I guess you're right - I can never know for sure until I try.
Still, if there's anyone out there who's used the Black as a webserver and found it to be insufficient, I would be interested to know what it choked on for comparison. On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 6:33:27 AM UTC+12, William Hermans wrote: > > The only way you're going to know is if you set it up and test. I am > thinking if it can handle your HD video that it should do just fine. > > > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:44 AM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I was hoping you could give me some advice on the BeagleBone boards. >> >> For a home project, I'm looking for something that can run a webserver >> that would only ever serve 1 to 3 clients at a time. The website itself is >> a little bit heavy though - basically it will show the client pictures and >> videos that are stored in an SQL database and perform some extra functions. >> >> I was lucky enough to borrow a BeagleBone Black from a friend, and do a >> quick check to serve a MP4 HD video file over LAN (HTML5 video). Seemed to >> work OK. >> >> Unfortunately I do not have time to set up and try out the entire website >> (which also has some php server-side scripting going on, doing queries on >> the SQL database, fetching lots of thumbnails to preview media files, etc). >> On top of all that, the Bone would be running a (very simple) Python server >> application that listens on a socket and forwards HTTP requests to some USB >> device connected to it. >> >> The video result was encouraging, but I have no clue what to expect >> performance-wise from the Bone when it's confronted with all the stuff >> listed above. I understand it's hard to say based on this brief >> explanation, but I was wondering whether you could do an educated guess: is >> this too much for the Beagle boards, or should they be able to handle this >> alright? >> >> Thank you very much! >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
