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?
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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