Amazing that you can build a career out of making useless things with RPi. I don't mean it as a negative thing about the author, but rather this kind of content.

It's a rare case when jack (RPi) of all trades is not at all better than master of one or even other jacks of all trades. Running anything but official distro is pain. Managing official distro is pain. Even you it wasn't it doesn't have enough raw power or I/O to do anything really useful.

It's an amazing "temporary" solution because it's so awful that you will actually replace it with a proper one.