In those days, I am thinking how to realize a mail and web server for the neighborhood association(NA).

Twenty years ago, "Making a server" needed considerable cost, money and human resources.

However, we can use an cloud server by several hundred yen per a month.

We can push a Internet provider on several messy groundworks like security measures

In my case, I use the cloud server to manage my homepage, and it is very helpful.

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To begin with, I will use a cloud server for the NA's IT services, however, now I come to think

"Can I use a "Raspberry PI" as the server?"

(This is an opposite approach against the cloud server).

I think that it is enough to manage the IT service to the NA.

The Raspberry PIs are working well for security systems of my home and wife's country house .

They have not gone them down, yet.

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Days of old, the servers makers were Sun, HP ad the prices were more than multi-million yen.

However, we can get a "Raspberry PI" by even 5000 yen from Amazon.com

So I feel that that the values of our engineer might go down relatively.(That might be true)

However, What we should do (server construction and management) is difficult and messy in their way.

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In fact,

"there are a pile of people who cannot use a PC and a smart-phone in the NA."

The annoying thing is that the following world is not coming,

"When their prices are going down, they come to have user friendly interfaces"