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Their option to colocate a Raspberry Pi (or similar form factor) for $5/month is also interesting as a VPN exit node.
Based on their broad "Acceptable Use Policy" ( https://microtronixdc.com/acceptable-use-policy ), I'd wager a guess they'll find a reason to shut that down.
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Yeah, I also later noticed they charge $46/month for 4 amps whereas the Raspberry Pi 5 requires a 5V, 5A power supply to take full advantage of its processing capabilities and features.
I assume the 4 amps they charge for are at 120 V (480 W), while the Pi only needs 25 W plus some rectifier inefficiency.
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I see terms for hosting and domain registration and managed databases, but not colocation. Do you know if they really not care if you actually use that connection to the stated allowance?
https://microtronixdc.com/products/colocation Their big selling point is that they truly provide unmetered connections.
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I see terms for hosting and domain registration and managed databases, but not colocation. Do you know if they really not care if you actually use that connection to the stated allowance?
Bandwidth for these providers is super cheap. The main cost is power consumption.
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or else they charge you $1 a tb, not cut you off
You're misreading. This wouldn't get the $1 fee. "We're giving you 20 TB (TWENTY) but don't you dare use more than 2 TB (TWO)" It's a classic web host reseller technique of overselling and having it backfire.
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Don't think we're close to that point yet. You can still get the same server for free from oracle free tier if you're willing to put up with god awful enterprisey control panel. Also that linode CPU is virtualized (i.e. at least some of that cache is shared).
Oracle has people jumping all kinds of hoops to get that service too. Just like Hetzner. Took me a few tries with different credit cards then tried to get one for my friend with their card and nothing would work. Great free service though. That ampere vm with 24 gb ram is quite capable.
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This is what I also want to do. How are you handling storage? That is the only issue I'm struggling with for a small 3-node deployment.
Longhorn volumes automatically replicate to multiple nodes (configurable) and automatically move to the nodes whose pods need it. A postgres database running on a single node will experience some downtime during (re)deployments or when moving across nodes, but should be pretty quick depending on the size of the database. For true HA database, CockroachDB is supposed to be compatible with postgres, but I haven't had a…
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If they can look it up then so can you! Maybe it filters out lazy scammers, but it doesn't sound like solid KYC to me. In fact I don't feel like a hosting service should need to do this at all. If you pay your bills and aren't on the Stasi blacklist you should be good to go. I don't want or expect the likes of Hetzner to be responsible for policing.
Sure, it's not solid, but they knew I was a private customer, so what should they do? Do a request to a private credit bureau like the SCHUFA (like Equifax) to check if my provided details are valid? It feels like it's a check to get a general feeling if things sound plausible. Like no Russian accent for a German name, some knowledge of the surroundings, a valid phone number.
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Oracle has people jumping all kinds of hoops to get that service too. Just like Hetzner. Took me a few tries with different credit cards then tried to get one for my friend with their card and nothing would work. Great free service though. That ampere vm with 24 gb ram is quite capable.
Ampere seems to be unavailable in EU region (out of capacity). Were you able to create it recently?
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I assume the 4 amps they charge for are at 120 V (480 W), while the Pi only needs 25 W plus some rectifier inefficiency.
Its based on wattage, 4A yes, but 4A multiplied by the voltage. So Pi 5 is 5A, but multiple that 5A times 24V dc and you get 120watts :) so yes, you can definitely colo a pi 5 my friend :D