Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud • Hacker News Board

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by gambiting » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 8:38 PM UTC

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?!

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.

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by gambiting » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 8:40 PM UTC

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #10

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.

This has been "out of stock" since right after it was announced.

They do increase capacity regularly, just keep checking.

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by MatthewPhillips » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 8:42 PM UTC

gambiting wrote: post #12

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has been "out of stock" since right after it was announced.

They do increase capacity regularly, just keep checking.

Is there any way to be notified when slots open up? I've been checking off and on since it was announced and it's always been "out of stock".

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by andyleclair » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 8:47 PM UTC

I forgot I had this extension enabled: https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt and hilarity ensued.

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by DanWaterworth » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 8:53 PM UTC

andyleclair wrote: post #14

I forgot I had this extension enabled: https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt and hilarity ensued.

I wrote a similar script that changed iPhone, iPad etc with bat phone, bat pad etc.

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by simpsond » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 8:56 PM UTC

One of the best features of the RPI is integration with other hardware (i2c, SPI, GPIO). It's neat to toggle a motor from a bash prompt. When that goes away, it's just a linux box. It looks like you are having fun though, so I applaud that. Edit: I guess the joke was lost on me.

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by gpjt » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 9:04 PM UTC

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.

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by jasonkostempski » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 9:25 PM UTC

Shouldn't this announcement have waited about a week?

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by olympus » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 9:42 PM UTC

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.

Re: Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

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Post by wcfields » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 10:14 PM UTC

gambiting wrote: post #11

gpjt wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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).