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You can attach a big ass SSD to this and still pay just $6 a month. This is unique I think. I wonder how they would feel if you add your custom electronics to the Pi's GPIO connector.
I don't see how much use you would get out of a 2TB or 4TB SATA SSD attached to a raspberry pi if the network is locked at 10Mbps throughput.
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Wait, renting is more than a dollar cheaper than colocating?
they rent you a docker debian instance on a pi, not full pi
> No additional virtualization aside from Docker
So docker is involved but you get a pi all to yourself. Does that make it so much easier to manage that they can pay for the pi themselves and still have much lower costs?
And you get an IP too??
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I was hoping they'd have a DC power supply per rack, but their FAQ makes it clear that this is not the case. Bit of a missed opportunity there. Handling heterogeneous power supplies sounds like a nightmare.
What a bummer. Something like an 80PLUS Platinum ATX PC PSU could do around 40 amps on the 5V rails. Redundant server PSUs seem like an obvious choice here.
Though either way you might be better off with a series of USB hubs.
While I completely understand the allure of running on your own hardware, if you just want a cheap server to host a personal page or similar, you cannot beat Scaleway's Stardust VM instances. For less than 2 EUR a month you get 1 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM, 1 IPv4+IPv6 address, 10GB of storage and unlimited traffic. They claim up-to 100Mbps bandwidth but I regularly get much more than that. This sounds like a commercial but I…
I think local hardware makes sense for LAN-only sites - e.g. a company wiki, a media center or a file storage with web interface. For anything that is supposed to be visible on the internet, I'd always use a hosted server - if nothing else, because I really don't want to open an ingress into my personal home network, even if my ISP permitted that. For use-cases were you have to handle certain incoming requests even t…
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What a bummer. Something like an 80PLUS Platinum ATX PC PSU could do around 40 amps on the 5V rails. Redundant server PSUs seem like an obvious choice here.
So much of a computer PSU is dedicated to 12 volts, though. I can get a 5V 60A supply for $27 and save a lot of unnecessary complexity. Though either way you might be better off with a series of USB hubs.
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So much of a computer PSU is dedicated to 12 volts, though. I can get a 5V 60A supply for $27 and save a lot of unnecessary complexity. Though either way you might be better off with a series of USB hubs.
Could usb hubs introduce security issues for the hosts?
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What a bummer. Something like an 80PLUS Platinum ATX PC PSU could do around 40 amps on the 5V rails. Redundant server PSUs seem like an obvious choice here.
So much of a computer PSU is dedicated to 12 volts, though. I can get a 5V 60A supply for $27 and save a lot of unnecessary complexity. Though either way you might be better off with a series of USB hubs.
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Agree, a central supply with a 3A MOSFET for control and a PTC for basic protection would give a lot more functionality and reduce customer downtime and smart-hands touches.
At that point what you're describing has little resemblance to a hosted RPI though, the complexity justifies just making something custom that's better suited to the task than shoe horning Raspberry Pi hardware into a rack.
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I fix this by running a script on a cron job that updates dns records based on my current ip, using cloudfront to only allow known ips through my ufw rules. It doesn't work for 100% uptime, but I've never had an instance where visiting my domain failed. It may not work if you're running a tor node, depending on how cloudfront deals with them, but it does work for mostly-reliable dns resolution on a non-static, reside…
> alternative for people that want a static ip without renting vps/metal How do you think Cloudfront works? Amazon is just selling you a bunch of VMs pre-configured as load balancers. Not trying to be a jerk here, but the cloud has really caused otherwise smart people to lose a grasp on reality.
I have a script that updates the dns record on a free tier plan with Cloudflare, and since traffic passes through them I can open my residential network to only ports 80 and 443 from their ip4/6 addresses.