How do you fit a raspberry pi edge-wise (56.5mm) into a rack unit (44.5mm)?
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Raspberry Pi Colocation
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#22I think they'll need to iterate a bit to find product market fit. The 10mbit bandwidth limit, calling it "Decentralized", no public IP downsides are off-putting even at this price.
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#23In Vienna/Austria there is a rpi or similar housing with a real ipv4 address:
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Edit: This is in response to the "fleet of Pi's" question, obviously a Mac Mini is not going to be cheaper to rent than a single Pi! The aforementioned VPS route is the better way to go for that case. Scaleway will give you an 8 core 16GB RAM 256GB SSD M1 Mac Mini for €0.1/h. It may not sound like much of an increase from core count but it is ~10x faster for multicore which means it probably comes out on top for perf…
That’s €72/mo. Different price class there.
To be clear this isn't an alternative to hosting a single Pi it was in response to the distributed case:
> Maybe there are ARM-specialized, highly distributed tasks for which a fleet of Pis is particularly efficient?
Assuming the task really requires ARM, is perfectly scalable among multiple systems, doesn't require more than 10mbps between the nodes, and doesn't require dedicated control/scheduling nodes (i.e. best case for the Pi's) a fleet in multiples of 10 Pi's per would be $59.90 month each plus the up front cost of the Pi's, power adapters, SSDs, and shipping. And even if you wrote off the up front hardware as on hand it would still be significantly less green to run.
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#25How do you fit a raspberry pi edge-wise (56.5mm) into a rack unit (44.5mm)?
It looks like they have a rack that’s 1U tall, but they only fill every few units to leave space for the pis. So in other words, it’s 3U...
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#26I'm gonna ask the dumb/obvious question: Why would I want this?
It's certainly not for the compute. Isn't the point of a Raspberry Pi controlling periphery on the edge? But that's not possible here?
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It's not even needing ARM cores, as those are now cheaply offered by all the cloud computing companies.
Is it just for some cheap fun? But if I'm going to host something on cheap amateur grade hardware, why would I not also just use my home connection? Is this for the experience and education?
... I really don't see what it's good for (explanations welcome).
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#27While 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'm just really happy with the service.
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#28"12 pis in 1U" where 1U is defined as the height of a pi on its side plus shelf, rather than the definition of 1U in every other 19" rackmount data center
From their rack diagram it looks to really be 2.67U + 1U 24 port switch per 12.
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#29I like the idea in theory, but I can’t entirely agree with the “Green” designation. Putting 12 Raspberry Pis, 12 USB SSDs, 12 switch ports, and cabling and power supplies for all of the above adds up quickly. From a pure compute-per-watt perspective using typical cloud workloads, I’d still expect a run of the mill shared cloud server to be more efficient. It would also allow for more burst overhead for individual wor…
> This is an interesting option for people who need a specific Raspberry Pi hosted somewhere. What is that use case though? The page says that they only host regular Pis and optionally a USB SSD. So they can't do anything that a regular cloud server can't do - no custom hats, etc. I have a Pi 4 home server, and the biggest issue right now is that my home upload is a bit weak for remote video streaming. So this produc…
> I have a Pi 4 home server, and the biggest issue right now is that my home upload is a bit weak for remote video streaming.
"To ensure that every Pi at our decentralized locations always has enough network throughput, the uplink and downlink is fixed at 10 Mbps."
Not sure about your use case, but for me that is way less bandwidth than I have at home.
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#30I bet everyone who has a raspberry pi had this idea. Throwing a raspberry pi with a solar panel and a sim card to a random place. It could be for backup, vpn or to access some private network. But having it be a rackmounted VM in a fixed location doesn't sound that fun to me.