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Now if only someone provided colo or leased versions of these. I imagine this is a better value prop than most VPS's.

mwambua 10y ago
IO has been a big problem for the Raspberry Pi and cheap ARM boards in general. Until a board comes out with gigabit ethernet* and SATA/USB3* you'll probably get better value for money with conventional mobos. * Note: A couple boards already have better IO... but lack the amount of software support that the Pi gets. e.g. Mainline Kernel support
- ZenoArrow 10y ago
  Best all-round ARM SBC (in terms of bang for your buck) is probably the Odroid-C2: http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2016/review-odroid-c2-compared-raspberry-pi-3-and-orange-pi-plus http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2016/review-odroid-c2-compa... Don't know if it has mainline kernel support, but it's a good option otherwise.
- makomk 10y ago
  You can probably still find Allwinner A20 boards with real gigabit ethernet, SATA and mainline kernel support. I think graphics support is still a little limited though.
hedora 10y ago
Scaleway has a 3 euro/month ARM baremetal (and Intel VPS) offering that is higher end than a raspberry pi 3, at least in terms of ram, network + storage -- didn't check CPU. https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ [edit: baremetal arm, not vps arm...]
- ajb 10y ago
  But are they actually available now? The original batch were all rented out within weeks, and they hadn't got any new ones any time I checked.
- bedros 10y ago
  any feedback on using this service?
  - IgorPartola 10y ago
    I use it currently. It's mostly good. They have SAN storage, so you are not limited by what's attached to the thing directly and you also get reliability. The control panel is mostly good. The boxes are speedy and bandwidth is good. The bad: their ARM boxes don't get IPv6. At all. The VPS's get 16 IPv6 addresses, which is really dumb. The badder: their ARM boxes and their VPS boxes can't be shut down. You can reboot them, or you can save their local state into block storage, which even for a small box takes many hours (up to a day in one instance for me). You also can't force-detach a volume from a box, so if say your box/VPS got borked, but you had a data volume you want to save, you are SOL.
    - xyzzy_plugh 10y ago
      Can you at least halt?
      - IgorPartola 10y ago
        I don't believe so. They just boot back up.
liberix 10y ago
There's also miniNodes. They offer Pi, Pi 3 and other options, but they are more expensive than Scaleway: https://www.mininodes.com/hosted-arm-servers/ https://www.mininodes.com/hosted-arm-servers/

IO has been a big problem for the Raspberry Pi and cheap ARM boards in general. Until a board comes out with gigabit ethernet* and SATA/USB3* you'll probably get better value for money with conventional mobos. * Note: A couple boards already have better IO... but lack the amount of software support that the Pi gets. e.g. Mainline Kernel support

ZenoArrow 10y ago
Best all-round ARM SBC (in terms of bang for your buck) is probably the Odroid-C2: http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2016/review-odroid-c2-compared-raspberry-pi-3-and-orange-pi-plus http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2016/review-odroid-c2-compa... Don't know if it has mainline kernel support, but it's a good option otherwise.
makomk 10y ago
You can probably still find Allwinner A20 boards with real gigabit ethernet, SATA and mainline kernel support. I think graphics support is still a little limited though.

hedora 10y ago

Scaleway has a 3 euro/month ARM baremetal (and Intel VPS) offering that is higher end than a raspberry pi 3, at least in terms of ram, network + storage -- didn't check CPU. https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ [edit: baremetal arm, not vps arm...]

ajb 10y ago
But are they actually available now? The original batch were all rented out within weeks, and they hadn't got any new ones any time I checked.
bedros 10y ago
any feedback on using this service?
- IgorPartola 10y ago
  I use it currently. It's mostly good. They have SAN storage, so you are not limited by what's attached to the thing directly and you also get reliability. The control panel is mostly good. The boxes are speedy and bandwidth is good. The bad: their ARM boxes don't get IPv6. At all. The VPS's get 16 IPv6 addresses, which is really dumb. The badder: their ARM boxes and their VPS boxes can't be shut down. You can reboot them, or you can save their local state into block storage, which even for a small box takes many hours (up to a day in one instance for me). You also can't force-detach a volume from a box, so if say your box/VPS got borked, but you had a data volume you want to save, you are SOL.
  - xyzzy_plugh 10y ago
    Can you at least halt?
    - IgorPartola 10y ago
      I don't believe so. They just boot back up.

liberix 10y ago

There's also miniNodes. They offer Pi, Pi 3 and other options, but they are more expensive than Scaleway: https://www.mininodes.com/hosted-arm-servers/ https://www.mininodes.com/hosted-arm-servers/