anyone interested in hosting a raspberry pi in my rack at the datacentre with your own static IP (not NAT) for like $15/m?
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anyone interested in hosting a raspberry pi in my rack at the datacentre with your own static IP (not NAT) for like $15/m? you supply your own Pi, storage & PoE hat, you're basically paying me for the IP address and the bandwidth and tiny bit of electricity - do people even want to do this considering a VPS is so cheap and more powerful?
How would system admin work? Is the idea that the owner would use SFTP and SSH to the static IP and do it themself? Or so you foresee some other support?
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How would system admin work? Is the idea that the owner would use SFTP and SSH to the static IP and do it themself? Or so you foresee some other support?
@dhobern exactly - give it to me setup, I give you an IP, you SSH in do whatever (legal activity) you want, go wild
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@decryption say I do something silly and the pi locks up, or freezes or something, how hard is remote hands to reboot it, or is that something that can be self serve?
@daveyk00 that would be a nice feature to have - i dont want to go to the data centre to power cycle it unless someone wants to pay me like $50 each time, lol
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@decryption people seem to want this https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi
@tj i remember it being a thing a few years ago, didnt know it was still done, cool! nice trick to use the PoE port to power cycle - wonder if they do OS re-installs/console access
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@daveyk00 that would be a nice feature to have - i dont want to go to the data centre to power cycle it unless someone wants to pay me like $50 each time, lol
@decryption Poe switch, you can reboot the port remotely upon request perhaps?
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anyone interested in hosting a raspberry pi in my rack at the datacentre with your own static IP (not NAT) for like $15/m? you supply your own Pi, storage & PoE hat, you're basically paying me for the IP address and the bandwidth and tiny bit of electricity - do people even want to do this considering a VPS is so cheap and more powerful?
i wonder if i could setup a netboot server that spits out a clean version of debian or whatever if a customer requests it from a dashboard, hmm
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@decryption Poe switch, you can reboot the port remotely upon request perhaps?
@daveyk00 yeah that's easy! could even use the switch's API so you could do it yourself - not sure how to handle reinstalling the OS if something goes wrong though
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i wonder if i could setup a netboot server that spits out a clean version of debian or whatever if a customer requests it from a dashboard, hmm
if the OS is cooked i dont know how you'd initiate a PXE boot unless _every_ time it boots it re-installs a fresh OS, which would be silly
maybe Pi hosting isn't worth the support pain, hmm, will think about it more
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anyone interested in hosting a raspberry pi in my rack at the datacentre with your own static IP (not NAT) for like $15/m? you supply your own Pi, storage & PoE hat, you're basically paying me for the IP address and the bandwidth and tiny bit of electricity - do people even want to do this considering a VPS is so cheap and more powerful?
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@decryption are you willing to let me run a Tor exit node?
@shermozle how much bandwidth do they use? like if it's on a 1gbit link, will it hog the entire 1gbit?
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@shermozle how much bandwidth do they use? like if it's on a 1gbit link, will it hog the entire 1gbit?
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@decryption you can crimp it to whatever rate you want. It's the Bad Things people in tor will try to do that's the reason VPS providers don't allow it.
@shermozle could maybe offer something like lowest priority traffic that dynamically changes when everyone else needs it - but i genuinely dont know if i have any legal liability, hmm, lemme think
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if the OS is cooked i dont know how you'd initiate a PXE boot unless _every_ time it boots it re-installs a fresh OS, which would be silly
maybe Pi hosting isn't worth the support pain, hmm, will think about it more
@decryption ideally, set it up without an OS.
Make it PXE boot _every_ time.
Let the customer provide the image if they don't want debian.
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@decryption ideally, set it up without an OS.
Make it PXE boot _every_ time.
Let the customer provide the image if they don't want debian.
@knack is PXE booting every time realistic? like what if i want to reboot it, but don't want the data on the machine wiped?
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@tj i remember it being a thing a few years ago, didnt know it was still done, cool! nice trick to use the PoE port to power cycle - wonder if they do OS re-installs/console access
@decryption I think mythicbeasts are on the fediverse so they might be happy to talk about the how of it -
anyone interested in hosting a raspberry pi in my rack at the datacentre with your own static IP (not NAT) for like $15/m? you supply your own Pi, storage & PoE hat, you're basically paying me for the IP address and the bandwidth and tiny bit of electricity - do people even want to do this considering a VPS is so cheap and more powerful?
@decryption For that price you should provide the raspberry hardware as well. Also the overhead of shipping raspberries around and the support of replacing defects one individually sounds like a nightmare. If you have a bunch of them ready in your rack you could automatically deploy and deliver them to your customers.
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