Productionising the traccar server
Why dont you ask co-pilot, chat-gpt or other ai tools. Its free and you get a comprehensive answer..
That said you could consider a vps which would be easy to scale up if needed. Ps. an sd card is not that solid as an ssd for example. Also mysql is preferred.
hm.. why have a user forum if the better place to get useful information is an AI service?
thanks for note re MySQL
You should read the optimization guide, if you haven't done it yet.
Thanks Anton, yes was part way through reading the optimisation info https://www.traccar.org/optimization/
Haven’t yet consider how applicable that is, for a user based of 33 or 4, with 10 client trackers now... and maybe +10 over next 2 - 3 years.
But did take note of the section re database engine and using MySQL.
For 10-20 devices you probably don't need to worry about any optimization, except make sure you're using a proper database, like MySQL.
@nbl1268
"hm.. why have a user forum if the better place to get useful information is an AI service?"
Because thirty years ago reading a forum would have been indeed the best solution. The only reason in my opinion for that is that there wasnt any ai to ask such questions. But now ai became so advanced that its incredible to see the knowledge it provides. Actually i hardly use google search any more because of that.
A forum is a good thing though, but its very helpfull to use ai also.
Actually i read the forum daily just to learn from it and ofcourse especially what Anton has to say about things.
AI provides no knowledge, it only compiles already available info based on search engine statistics, which means it will not provide necesarily truthful info.
It will provide any kind of available info. be it real, truth, lies, spam or made up junk, etc...
To use AI succesfully, you first need to have the proper knowledge about what you're searching in order to be able to dismiss all the crap it will give you.
And it gives you LOTS.
@Walter
It seems you have never heard of ai reasoning benchmarks.
Hi, wondering what steps are needed, beyond the base install, to "productionise" my traccar server?
I have this set up on a Raspberry Pi 4, 8 GB ram, 32GB SD card... with latest RaspiOS.. and have just 10 of the sino track 'ST901-AL' units as client tracking devices connected.
Looking at what other steps i could / should take for this to be more production ready.
Including if i need to look at options re database? seen few posts re SQL, MySQL and other databases, as well as regular database back ups.
And maybe even some security considerations about how best to make SSH access bit more secure?