[Tech] Raspberry pi colocation

[Haven]

Saw this and thought a few of you might find use for your old pi's that are gathering dust somewhere:

http://raspberrycolocation.com/home/

For only € 36,00 a year (€ 3,00 monthly) you'll have your very own Raspberry Pi colocated in a professional data center.

Currently that works out at £30/yr for 500GB/month of traffic allowance. I'm seriously tempted to throw one of my old units at them and use it as backup dns/mx server.

Slap a 64GB micro usb in your pi + a decent SD card and you're pretty much set to do what you want.

 

[Nanor]

Sounds pretty interesting. As an aside did you do anything notable with your pi?

 

[Haven]

Sounds pretty interesting. As an aside did you do anything notable with your pi?

• XBMC / Rasplex box
• Rasbian Debian Server
• Took a brief look at compiling Gentoo for it and gave up rapidly

Thats my lot so far. I've got two of the 256mb models which limits my options a little compared to the 512 variants. If I had the 512 I'd be using Rasplex for sure. As it is one of them will be a home backup server plugged into a 2TB external USB. It'll act as print and bacula server on the local network with the possibility of backup dhcp/tftpboot environment to help me get out of trouble if I ever have issues with my main boxen. The second is a candidate for building up as a backup DNS/MX/Owncloud storage box and posting off to the guys above.

Very fun little boxes and worth every penny.

 

[Nanor]

Pretty cool. I bought an Arduino and I'm in the process of getting into a project with that. When I finish with that I may look into something interesting to do with a Pi. A co-worker of mine made a pipboy out of a Pi. You can read about it here if it interests you.