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Raspberry Pi Colo
Hi,
does anyone know some providers with Raspberry Pi Colocation?
(I know Edis, PCExtreme, retrosnub)
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Are these really worth colocating?
Can you imagine a Raspberry Pi Cabinet?
DigitalFyre
On a tray maybe, the amount of power supply units/ports you'll need will be crazy.
These aren't capable of doing anything that an LEB won't do, so why bother?
Homebrew racks are cool
Taking a hiatus.
Can you clarify what exactly is/was your point?
from http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-colocation/
Yes, it is worth. Perfect for a small nameserver, if you only trust in your own hardware (like me ;-))
Already have one @pcextreme.
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My point is that I agree with @kcaj... What's the benefit of colocating a Raspberry Pi? What does it offer that makes it so unique you'd use it over a real low-cost LEB?
The comment held a bit of sarcasm to be honest, but I meant no disrespect to OP. My personal opinion is that RasPi colocation may not have many benefits. There's no IPMI or KVM Console, if anything goes wrong you have to get remote hands involved etc... But I could be wrong
DigitalFyre
http://www.micron21.com/raspberrypi-colocation.php
https://raspberry-hosting.com/en
http://www.apolan.de/microserver.php
https://fsdata.se/server/raspberry-pi-colocation/
http://www.rz-muenchen.de/de/raspberry-colo
http://picolocation.co.uk/
http://www.fusa.be/en/hosting/special_colocation
@DalekOfSkaro I can see the appeal to those that don't like running on VPS's or un-owned hardware but it isn't something I would personally do with my Pi.
Taking a hiatus.
RasPis are awesome, I am not suggesting otherwise. But personally, if I were to colocate something tiny for personal use, I'd colocate a Nuc. At home, instead of using RasPi I'd use Nuc too... But that's just me.
DigitalFyre
@patrick7 we don't offer colo but you can rent a fully working Raspberry Pi micro server from us. With remote power control, rescue mode, automatic reinstalls, etc.
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@berndy2001
Thanks, some of them I already saw before.
Unfortunately, some provide only shared IPs with natted ports :-(
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Agreed, but my proposed "competitor" would be not a low-cost LEB, but the Kimsufi KS1.
And also mivitec.de:
see http://www.rz-muenchen.de/en/free-raspberry-colo
-> Sorry: this seems to have been mentionned already ...
where is this pi located?any test ip?
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The raspberries can't sustain large network speed due to the fact that their internal network card is USB based.
The test IP is not hosted on a raspberry Pi though
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I'll colo your RPi in my basement.
Signatures are to identify who I am. I'm me. Who the hell are you?
What is the typical sustainable network speed? Just curious.
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Just did the standard "cachefly 100mb download" test and it pulled between 40 and 50Mbps (did several tests). The same test on the same network but different more powerful hardware can pull a lot more.
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Well anyone interested in this sort of colo, can do £4/mo + VAT on this sort of device..
Or, use the rbpi as its built for, place it in your home, have fun, direct access and only pay $5 a year for the power costst
ik moet poepen
we can provide colocation for a Raspberry Pi no problem, just contact just for a quote as this is a first for us!
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Are you able to give us a ball park figure?
Including costs for everything such as remote hands , bw, power etc..
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Sounds good. How would you like to consume services from my RPi with 100KB/s upload speed (if you are lucky)?
Dude, I probably wouldn't want to consume services from your RPi if it was in Google's data center. They're not really designed to be servers.
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They are doing fine transcoding 720p MPEG2 to H264 for me. I wouldn't waste precious CPU cycles of a powerful machine for such job.
What does it mean for a hardware to be "designed" to be server? Aside from the Xeon's, I can't think of many other architectures "designed" for servers, yet people are achieving great results with Atoms, Via's, ARMs, etc. Anything can be a server if its price/performance ratio is suitable for the task.
Yeah, and how does it do with other codecs? :-)
The reason H264 works is a specialized video processor onboard. It's not like the RPi is a good general media transcoder system.
It means it scales to handling multiple concurrent users. Put a MySQL database on your RPi and throw 100 users concurrently working with the DB and it will melt. Your typical Xeon will not.
Your typical Atom/Via/NUC/i3/i5/i7 is designed to be a single-user system. A Xeon is designed to be a multi-user system. Sure you can use either for either purpose but your i5's mobo will be more add-on friendly (as a desktop user would want) while a Xeon's will be more enterprise-feature friendly (multiple NICs, multiple power supplies, SAS HDs, etc.) So you know, "designed" :-)
IBM POWER, IBM z/OS, IBM eServer, HP Itanium, Oracle/Fujitsu SPARC, whatever AMD is selling for servers these days, etc.
OK, yes, in a sense a Coleco Adam can be a server but "designed" to be a server means, well, designed to be a server. My home PC is fine as a home file server for a half dozen people periodically browsing pictures, but it has SATA disk (not enterprise-grade), an i7 (not a Xeon), a single realtek NIC (ugh), no HA features, non-ECC RAM, etc. I wouldn't put it in a datacenter and try to run a high traffic site off of it.
I have nothing against the RPi (I own one) but it's a 700Mhz SoC running on a single HD at best - putting it in a DC and expecting it to perform as a server is kind of silly.
Which isn't to say it wouldn't be fun or shouldn't be done, of course :-)
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The reason the Raspberry Pi was built is that you can learn from programming. It has GPIO pins and a HDMI output which can't be really used in a datacenter. Why would you even colocate it, when you can get a VPS for €5/year with is faster and you'll still have a Raspberry Pi at your home.
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Anyone willing to colocate the Odroid-C1? Same Price, Same Size, much more powerful! hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G141578608433
Pretty sure many providers can do it.
You can run the Pi at 100% CPU load 24/7 and not get kicked out. Yes, it is an ARM, but you can overclock it to 1GHz. Then if you deploy 4 RPi's it's like having a 4 core ARM
There are some uses (fuse, ipsec vpn, etc) which don't work on OpenVZ. You could get a KVM but then again come the CPU load restrictions.
All things considered, aside from transcoding, I think the Online.net Labs ARM dedis will be better than colocated Pi's, if competitively priced.
The question here is will the price make any sense, or will it be like your "£4/mo + VAT" which ends up being more expensive than just renting a KS1.
Yes, that's true. But as I said already before, I don't trust in others hardware or vps systems. I'd like to have my own hardware, even it's a Raspberry Pi. I also know that it is not designed for server use, so I don't run critical services on it.
My raspberries that are in colocation at the moment: Zurich (serial console server), Frankfurt (serial console server), Amsterdam (Nameserver).
My main servers are also in colocation (First server: Xeon E3-1230v3, 32GB RAM, 4x500GB RAID10, Second server: Xeon E3-1240, 16GB RAM, 2x 500GB, 2x 250GB RAID 1). Networking I do with a MikroTik RB2011UAS-RM, an own AS-Number, leased IPv4 /24 and PI IPv6.
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PRQ offers Pi colocation too
http://prq.se/?p=rpi&intl=1
Even though these are power effective I would need to still pay for ips. I reckon the lowest I can go is £2.50/mo.
Taking a hiatus.
+1. Yeah! I was about to ask the same thing here
EDIT: any problem colocating the Odroid together with RB's (in the same case/rack)?
Same cost with 4x ++ performance like, n'est pas?
Do you know what kind of power they draw in kilo watts? and we would provide you with a 100Mbps Shared unmetered Uplink + the power depending on how much needed for around £5 - 10 per month but that is changeable due to the unique request + how many you are wanting to colocate.
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FPS?
How about the boxes I said in the other thread? Atom Zxxxx ?
I heard they hate America and their network is token ring.
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Oh man... you're gonna get banned.
1.5 year necro
With Raspberry pi zero you can plug it directly to the USB port of any computer and it will get network connection. All you need is a computer that's on 24/7 and a small vps to give you external access. Then you just enable internet connection sharing on the PC and you're good to go, you can collocate your own Pi for free.
This might be my most favorite post, ever.
Explain.
What I meant to say is that many people do have access to computers that are powered on 24/7 but can't use them as servers because they have other purpose. They also may not have ethernet ports available for a normal raspberry pi to plug into. With the zero, it is very discrete to plug it in the back of any computer and a couple of clicks to give it network connection.
I certainly didn't mean that one should leave a computer powered on for the exclusive purpose of sharing its connection with a raspberry pi.
Does the power port on the Zero also transmit data? If so, then I apologize, but I couldn't find that it did.
It does. and it acts as a USB ethernet device. That's why I am saying all you have to do is plug it in and turn on internet connection sharing (on Windoiws).
The only thing I could find for usb ethernet on the zero is this http://blog.gbaman.info/?p=699
But it's only one way.. apart from that there's not outgoing ethernet over USB @elwebmaster can you back this up with actual proof please.
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Flash to SD card. Boot the Pi and connect to computer. SSH as [email protected] password raspberry.