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Stability problems with a Raspberry Pi ZeroW2 (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 days ago by wolf@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Let me start with, that I am running Raspberry Pi servers since the first Raspberry Pi was released more than a decade ago. Only problems I ever had until now, where dying SD-Cards with the first generation of RPIs. Since them I only buy really big high quality SD-Cards and I have RPI(4) servers running 24/7 for years w/o any troubles.

For a new project, I am running a web service on a Raspberry Pi ZeroW2 with an Apache reverse proxy on the same machine. Memory usage, even under load, is a maximum of 100 MB. This RPIZW2 simply dies after a few days, and I have no idea how debug this problem.

More details of the RPIZW2:

Uses Raspbian configured via Ansible to be an exact replica of my RPI(4), only Apache and a webservice were added
Quality power supply (original RPI hardware) and literally plugged to the same electricity circuit as the RPI(4)
The webapp is just a 'hello, world' with the current time and my internet connection is not fast enough to be DOSed
Monitored memory usage etc. for several hours and found nothing out of the ordinary
fail2bann is active and running
SD-card has several unused GIGs of free space and is same brand/quality as the one in the RPI(4)

Anyone experienced something similar? Has anyone an idea how to approach debugging this problem?

I am not sure that there is a better place at Lemmy for this kind of question than here. I'll happily move this post to another place, if it is not appropriate here.

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[–] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

The issue is that it is simply not built with reliability as a high priority so probably some hardware component shits itself too much after a while.There is a reason every reasonable company that needs a server to run reliably in production uses something orders of magnitude more expensive than a rpi.

You lucked out with your previous experiences, but many others did not, or the industry would not pay the price of a rpi a month to run a machine with the specs of a rpi.

That said, if you don't need the reliability some easy hacks like a reboot cronjob or systemd timer, or trying to turn off unneeded services or peripherals could give you 90% of an industrial server's reliability