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by asdff 1414 days ago
With this many pis, what's stopping you from buying an old workstation that can run all of those systems concurrently?
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Management simplicity, probably. There are many pre-made images you can just flash on an SD card and have run perfectly. Computationally you could very likely run all of the services on a single Pi just as well.
Most of these live in different locations, or are portable.