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Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by gambiting »

wcfields wrote: post #20
gambiting wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup. I've got friends who have their PIs there, works like a charm. I would send mine but I use it as a TimeMachine server at home. But tbh it would be worth it to buy another one and send it there just to have a remote ssh server through which I could tunnel in times of need.

I would send mine but I use it as a TimeMachine server at home. Holy shit, just looked this up. What a great idea (instead of paying $$$ for a Time Capsule).

Yeah both my and my dad use it to back up our macs. It cost me $35 for the raspberry pi and $80 for a 1TB drive a few months ago.

The only issue is that Raspberry Pi has its Lan connected through the USB internally, so the USB drive and Lan share bandwidth - which means that my backups run at 5-6MB/s, which is not ideal, but works just fine. Just leave it for a few hours when you do your first backup,and after that it runs completely fine ;-)

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by sharkweek »

subway wrote: post #6
davidroberts wrote: post #5

I love it. See what happens when you click one of the "Buy" buttons.

Agreed. I found myself halfway to a facepalm until I clicked the "Buy" button. Beautifully executed trolling.

The bottom bit of copy was great -- but until then I was like "hmmm... is this real?"

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by gpjt »

olympus wrote: post #19

This should have been saved for 1 April. It's good advertising though, and since it hit the front page of HN it's probably driving a ton of traffic to their site.

We probably should have waited but it was one of those silly ideas you get on a Friday evening and we're probably never have got round to it if we'd not done it right away.

In terms of traffic to our main site -- not too much, 400 extra visitors or so. But that's not a problem, we did it because we thought it was funny, and put in the link to PythonAnywhere as an afterthought. Just wanted to share the joke.

That said, the Pinode site is running in one of our standard $5/month accounts and is handling a Hacker News front page (a few dozen hits/second) without even breaking a sweat. Just sayin'...

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by zenocon »

Can I ask why (without trying to sound awful and steal someone's front page thunder)? If you want to do something interesting with the Pi you'll probably be wanting to connect other hardware to it. You can't when it is in the cloud. Otherwise, it is just a general purpose Arm/Linux board that has far less power than anything else you could get in the cloud-o-spehere...so I'm just genuinely wondering what you would use this for? Plus, the hardware is so cheap ($25-35 USD), it sorta defeats the purpose of HW in the cloud to save cost (hardware as a service, e.g. EC2, etc)..

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by theon144 »

zenocon wrote: post #24

Can I ask why (without trying to sound awful and steal someone's front page thunder)? If you want to do something interesting with the Pi you'll probably be wanting to connect other hardware to it. You can't when it is in the cloud. Otherwise, it is just a general purpose Arm/Linux board that has far less power than anything else you could get in the cloud-o-spehere...so I'm just genuinely wondering what you would us…

Try buying it :)

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by zenocon »

theon144 wrote: post #25
zenocon wrote: post #24

Can I ask why (without trying to sound awful and steal someone's front page thunder)? If you want to do something interesting with the Pi you'll probably be wanting to connect other hardware to it. You can't when it is in the cloud. Otherwise, it is just a general purpose Arm/Linux board that has far less power than anything else you could get in the cloud-o-spehere...so I'm just genuinely wondering what you would us…

Try buying it :)

[Edit] ah ok -- nice troll :)

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by aychedee »

gpjt wrote: post #9
gambiting wrote: post #8

Or you could just buy a Raspberry PI, and send it to EDIS in Austria: http://www.edis.at/en/server/colocation/austria/raspberrypi/ And there you get FREE symmetrical 100mbit connection with no monthly payment. And you can always get your Raspberry Pi back if you need to, you just need to pay a few euros for postage.

Holy crap, someone's doing this for real?!

Rule 34... Can someone post some shots of their facilities. I'm just interested. Ya know.

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by cloudmaster »

zenocon wrote: post #24

Can I ask why (without trying to sound awful and steal someone's front page thunder)? If you want to do something interesting with the Pi you'll probably be wanting to connect other hardware to it. You can't when it is in the cloud. Otherwise, it is just a general purpose Arm/Linux board that has far less power than anything else you could get in the cloud-o-spehere...so I'm just genuinely wondering what you would us…

As an alternative to low-end VPS's it's not the worst idea in the world at $5 a month. It'd cost more than that to upgrade your home's cable internet connection to be able to serve traffic decently.
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