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Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by secure »

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.

I really recommend NOT going with edis. I have sent my Raspberry Pi there and had constant trouble with it. It’s unreachable via IPv6 and/or IPv4 for long periods of time (days) and good luck contacting anyone about it. I will request to have it sent back soon.

All in all, this is not even usable for any toy projects.

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by nivertech »

gpjt wrote: post #17

BTW I'd like to thank the guys at Zurb for producing Foundation. The whole Pinode site took less than 45 minutes to write, of which we spent about ten minutes on the design and the rest on the jokes. And we'd never done anything with Foundation before. Definitely a fantastic framework for putting a product site together quickly.

Would you say that Foundation is better fit for marketing/product sites, while Bootstrap is better for webapps/admins?

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by gambiting »

wyager wrote: post #38
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.

How do they make money?

They probably don't make money on this service, but just look at their website - they offer tons of other services in few different countries, that's where the money is coming from. Their raspberry pi offer is more likely a promotion thing, because it costs them very little to run and attracts people to their company.

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by gambiting »

secure wrote: post #41
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.

I really recommend NOT going with edis. I have sent my Raspberry Pi there and had constant trouble with it. It’s unreachable via IPv6 and/or IPv4 for long periods of time (days) and good luck contacting anyone about it. I will request to have it sent back soon. All in all, this is not even usable for any toy projects.

YMMV - Two of my friends have theirs there and they work fine as far as I know. I personally had problems with providers where I was actually paying money for their service, so there is no perfect company.

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by gpjt »

nivertech wrote: post #42
gpjt wrote: post #17

BTW I'd like to thank the guys at Zurb for producing Foundation. The whole Pinode site took less than 45 minutes to write, of which we spent about ten minutes on the design and the rest on the jokes. And we'd never done anything with Foundation before. Definitely a fantastic framework for putting a product site together quickly.

Would you say that Foundation is better fit for marketing/product sites, while Bootstrap is better for webapps/admins?

Can't say. We used bootstrap for our main product site and it was great. We found foundation better for the pinode marketing site but we've never used it for a webapps, so it might be better for those too.

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by jnw2 »

lsc wrote: post #35
mschuster91 wrote: post #28

How do you do the DVI video capturing? Framegrabbers and IP KVM modules are dead expensive, AFAIK - and how do you handle reformatting?

eh, I've been looking at doing something like this (hosting PI units) and the OOB solution I'm considering is soldering on a serial console. I would also need to figure out some automated bootloader setup, of course.

Maybe you should pay to have built a batch of a thousand custom boards that are similar to, but not exactly the same as, the standard Raspberry Pi, so that they have a proper serial port etc.

You could also consider putting more than one ARM computer on each board (at which point maybe you want fewer than a thousand boards) and building an ethernet switch into that board, etc, and maybe you could even hardwire all the serial lines within the board, etc.

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by lsc »

jnw2 wrote: post #47
lsc wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

eh, I've been looking at doing something like this (hosting PI units) and the OOB solution I'm considering is soldering on a serial console. I would also need to figure out some automated bootloader setup, of course.

Maybe you should pay to have built a batch of a thousand custom boards that are similar to, but not exactly the same as, the standard Raspberry Pi, so that they have a proper serial port etc. You could also consider putting more than one ARM computer on each board (at which point maybe you want fewer than a thousand boards) and building an ethernet switch into that board, etc, and maybe you could even hardwire all th…

maybe. My partner has experience with that sort of thing, so yeah, that's an idea for a kickstarter or something. It would be awesome publicity for the sorts of people I like to sell to.

But from what I'm told, it's a fairly simple soldering job to put a serial port on a regular pi.

Personally, I'd want to add more ram if I'm going to bother with a whole goddamn board spin, and maybe remove the video hardware, but then, I don't know how involved that would be, and meh, I have a tonne of other work she could be doing now that she's working here that would probably provide a better return, and eh, the window for starting a custom spin of a pi board and having it done before the pi is obsolete is probably closing anyhow, so maybe next revision?

That's big problem with custom hardware... By the time you are done with all the Engineering effort and debugging, well, there's better hardware out there. Remember the neo? That's why you'd want to start with something mostly done (that was only recently released) and then make minor changes (and why removing video and adding more ram might be a bad idea?)

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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jnw2 wrote: post #47
lsc wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

eh, I've been looking at doing something like this (hosting PI units) and the OOB solution I'm considering is soldering on a serial console. I would also need to figure out some automated bootloader setup, of course.

Maybe you should pay to have built a batch of a thousand custom boards that are similar to, but not exactly the same as, the standard Raspberry Pi, so that they have a proper serial port etc. You could also consider putting more than one ARM computer on each board (at which point maybe you want fewer than a thousand boards) and building an ethernet switch into that board, etc, and maybe you could even hardwire all th…

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