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Re: Raspberry Pi Colocation

#31

Post by ringworld »

frankjr wrote: post #27

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…

https://www.scaleway.com/en/stardust-instances/

I am not a fan of the lottery approach and being told you're lucky to do business with them.

Re: Raspberry Pi Colocation

#32

Post by prirun »

sokoloff wrote: post #3

I know that co-location means “customer owned hardware”, but in this case, I think I’d way rather rent data center owned RPis and just pay them money rather than sending in hardware, having to cycle out hardware if/when it fails, etc. It also means the colo is running whatever random power supply I send them, which seems like something they’d want to avoid and means that there’s all the inefficiency of 12 supplies pe…

They also sell PI Instances for $2.88/mo:

https://examesh.de/en/instances/pi/

Re: Raspberry Pi Colocation

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Post by frankjr »

ringworld wrote: post #31
frankjr wrote: post #27

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…

https://www.scaleway.com/en/stardust-instances/ I am not a fan of the lottery approach and being told you're lucky to do business with them.

I understand it more like a struggle to keep up it the demand for these instances and this was their attempt to "gamify" it.

Re: Raspberry Pi Colocation

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Post by randomluck040 »

ringworld wrote: post #31
frankjr wrote: post #27

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…

https://www.scaleway.com/en/stardust-instances/ I am not a fan of the lottery approach and being told you're lucky to do business with them.

The lottery approach pissed me off so bad, I decided to leave Scaleway altogether. They also aren’t upfront about their contingents. I wanted to try out an M1 instance and before registering and putting my credit card info in, it seemed like it’d be all fine, I just have to put in cc info. I did, they told me there are no instances available. The fair way would be to be upfront about it in my opinion.

Re: Raspberry Pi Colocation

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Post by my123 »

solarkraft wrote: post #26

I'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? ??? 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 no…

Small unit of dedicated hardware, without any other tenants on that same host.

Re: Raspberry Pi Colocation

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Post by bullen »

mr_sturd wrote: post #14

EDIS offered a colo service for free, back in the early RPi days. I had two gen 1.5 machines hosted with them; one with OwnCloud, and another hosted my music via SFTP.

gen 1.5? Are they still running those for free?

I had "free" colocations in Sweden and Holland that then turned not free then got cancelled altogether.

Pi clusters are best for home hosting on your own fiber.

Also those Pi 4 need heatsinks like so: http://move.rupy.se/file/final_pi_2_4_hybrid.png

Re: Raspberry Pi Colocation

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Post by [deleted] »

solarkraft wrote: post #26

I'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? ??? 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 no…

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