On 1/11/25 11:04 AM, Zachary Liebl wrote:
I am not sure what else you have running on your server, but assuming it is
just simple stuff like webservers and mailservers then you would be fine
condensing it onto a mini PC. They even have Raspberry Pi colocation for
$9/month which is probably enough. Of course they also have standard 1U, 2U,
etc hosting.
Very interesting.
The Raspberry Pi hosting is very intriguing, if only Pis were better.
I consider SD cards to be in a category similar to how I used to think
of floppies. Terribly useful, nice to fall back on for booting, etc.,
but I don't trust *running* off an SD card. A Raspberry Pi 4 is willing
to boot off of external devices! But even if I plug a Raspberry Pi into
a big fat power supply the built in USB ports can't supply enough power
for external disks or SSDs. Grrrr.
So I have a powered hub, a pair of raid 1 SSDs each in Sabrent USB
enclosures, two power supplies (one for the Pi, one for the hub), and
the Raspberry Pi 4, in a metal case that doubles as a heatsink.
Not a powerful machine circa 2025, but in many ways much more powerful
than the Cray-1 super computers of my youth. Good enough for me.
I wonder if their "mini PC" colocation would allow "Please set this heap
of stuff on a shelf, plug in power and ethernet. Oh, and replug any of
the other connections that came apart in shipping."? Not that I would be
in the market right now for that service, but still good to have
strawman options around.
-kb, the Kent whose two mail servers are a "heap of stuff", but at least
with no moving parts.
P.S. I wish Raspberry Pis were a bit more productized. I wish the
Raspberry Pi 5's being high power meant things like more DC current
instead of meaning too much heat to run without moving parts (fans).
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