Raspberry Pi Colocation

Post by GekkePrutser » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 6:49 PM UTC

Sebb767 wrote: post #57

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…

Next to the other arguments, the colocation is pretty cheap. In Germany, you can calculate ~20ct per Wattmonth for electricity, so ~1€ of this would go to electricity alone. Hosting at home also tends to come without static IP and non-symmetrical, somewhat unstable connections (speaking from painful experience). For this service you pay ~6€ per month (assuming 50€ for the Pi and two years of runtime, no SSD) for a ra…

Post by jagger27 » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 7:01 PM UTC

klyrs wrote: post #50

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…

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.

Post by jagger27 » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 7:11 PM UTC

Post by GekkePrutser » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 7:46 PM UTC

gurchik wrote: post #56

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…

I would recommend Racknerd as well. Not affiliated with them except a happy customer. I pay $36/yr for my 2 GB memory, 2 vCPU, 50 GB SSD VPS that I run Nextcloud on. I also have a $16/yr VPS with 1.5 GB memory and 30 GB SSD for K3s

Post by alexatalktome » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 7:48 PM UTC

erulabs wrote: post #85

Hey this is sort of the mirror opposite of my startup (we try to bring the internet to your home-pi, rather than ship your home-pi to a datacenter!). Neat tho! I'm not entirely sure it's that power efficient versus a carved up hypervisor tho...