Are there actually any more beefy (>2gb ram?) router type boards that run OpenWRT? I think you can also get Nextcloud running on that, so having a meshed kind of Nextcloud instance directly integrated in each of your routers (or Wifi-repeaters, Mesh-nodes etc.) would be really cool.
You can really run openwrt on any board. Ideally with miniPCIe 2.0 and 802.11ac wave 2.
There are PHP7 packages for openwrt/LEDE
Thatās interesting xD
To add to this: there are some powerful boards but they are very expensive.
The Gateworks Ventana GW5400 has 4 PCI 2.0 slots (so 2 ac wave2 radios plus a small SSD would be possible), 4 cores 1GHz imx6 and 1GB ram. Pretty powerful for a domestic router, even though it is ~3years old, but it is in the range of hundreds of dollars
You can definitely get something cheaper than that, this for example:
http://www.banana-pi.org/r2.html
It should sell for around $100 ($85 plus shipping from China).
wow thatās impressive. I am so out of date xD
That is such a nice set of specs, omg. If I recall correctly, the MALI is closed source but who cares for a headless cloud / router. SATA and USB3 ā¦
I have an old LEDE docker container, maybe it could run along the NextCloudPi docker container if I update it.
Yeah, but MT & BananaPI have notoriously bad software supportā¦ otherwise I would also think this is a great offer. Well maybe it will really take off in the LEDE community and software support will come from there. Lets see.
yeah, itās interesting to keep an eye on. Also miniPCIe 2.0 is the perfect fit for 802.11ac wave2. Many manufacturers ship wave 2 boards with PCI1.1 nowadays which is not ideal
edit: if it only had POE it would be perfect hardwarewise
Hopefully it is much better than the original BPI-R1 that was thrown out of Armbian because it was so extremely bad.
@nachoparker Maybe the Clearfrog: https://wiki.solid-run.com/doku.php?id=products:a38x:clearfog
Finally got a tracking ref from pine and the rock64 is on its way and as writing this its at the door!?
Great though
cool, I am almost done with the docker image that includes 12.0.3, ncp-web and all the extras, but I had to pause that in order to release the new SD card with the wizard, so hopefully next week.
In the meantime you can try the older container (12.0.0), but it doesnāt have the extras, nor the NCP web interface.
Hello,
I didnāt read the hole Thread. Some people use the odroid C2. Which is nice and fast with emmc Card. Which app do you use to read docs and excel files? Onlyoffice or collabora donāt work.
You could use this āzombieā but it is not advisable to rely on it too much:
if ācheapā is relative and not exclusively measured in ā¬$ā¬$ā¬$ā¬, iād rather go for sth. like this: http://imn.de/product/show/605/x4170-sunfire-x4170-server
(no, i am not affiliated with them in any way, i just like them olā reliable workhorses 
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I used and Rootserver until last month but 25 euro plus 25 euro for the backupserver is too much only for website hosting and cloud.
neverrrrrr!
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I, too, got mine today. I am traveling so I wonāt be back to play with it until next week.
Thanks!
Well Iāve found a review of the new ZOTAC PI225 x86 compatible PC, pretty small stuff though it has only Wifi and no Ethernet and costs around 200,- EUR
Yeah that one looks pretty neat but definitely another price range than the Pine64 etc. Gigabit ethernet to USB-C type adapters are easy to get tough, so that should not be a big issue.