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by mirimir 4020 days ago
I wonder if any hosting providers are offering such micro PCs, or planning to. They would be a great alternative to VPS, arguably with better security. I've seen some Raspberry Pi hosting, but its USB NIC is too slow.

I'll update this if I find anything.
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ZenoArrow 4020 days ago
The Odroid C1 would be a better match for this than a Raspberry Pi 2. They both cost $35, but the Odroid C1 has Gigabit Ethernet plus a faster CPU (based on these tests at least... http://www.androidauthority.com/raspberry-pi-2-vs-odroid-c1-... ).
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mirimir 4020 days ago
Thanks!

Now only if someone were providing hosting for them ...

Maybe Raspberry Hosting[0] would be interested ;)

[0] https://raspberry-hosting.com/en

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Someone1234 4020 days ago
If the price point gets too low, the IPv4 address might become the bottleneck. Bandwidth is cheap, power is cheap for a device like this, and the space could be very low. So you might get close enough to the sun to hit the IPv4 cost limit.

Keep in mind you can buy a much more powerful machine than this from Amazon or Microsoft for around $10 all in (yes, running Windows). So they'd have to be looking around $5 and IPv4 addresses can cost $1.5-2/each.

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thisishugo 4020 days ago
You could take a look at Scaleway[0]. They provide ARM-based dedicated servers (with caveats).

[0] http://www.scaleway.com

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mirimir 4020 days ago
So these C1 ARM servers are built in house, I gather. Their features page says "true dedicated hardware", but I wonder how well those 18 servers on each board are isolated. IPMI could be a disaster.

But thanks.

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revelation 4020 days ago
OVH offers dedicated servers using Intel Atom N2180 processors, which have a proper NIC (but no SSD).
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lorenzhs 4020 days ago
They do! See http://www.kimsufi.com/ (which belongs to OVH). The SSD box is terrible value though. I have a KS-1 for ~6€/month (incl VAT) and while it isn't a particularly fast machine, it fulfils all my server needs. It's also incredibly cheap for a dedicated server.
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mirimir 4020 days ago
Thanks. Very cool!

That was my point, by the way. Dedicated micro servers could be priced like VPS, but be more secure.

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