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Ask HN: Would you pay for ARM-based dedicated instances?
Would you be willing to pay for a dedicated ARM-based instances, potentially less than 5 dollars per month for a dedicated Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB RAM?
- gramakri 6y agoI think similar prices are available on scaleway. Atleast the scaleway ones were very slow (but this a year or two ago).
- josephernest 6y agoYes and no. Not at this price: for 5$/mo you can have a real dedicated server (not a VPS) by kimsufi provider for example. Also 1 year of rental at 3-4$/mo = you have spent the same price as buying and owning one.
- karakanb 6y agoThat is true indeed, but there's a cost for having your instance, proper cases, cooling the instances down, securing them, ensuring proper networking and more, pretty much the same stuff as a regular cloud, that's why I was wondering if people would be interested. For the yes part, what would be the monthly price you'd be willing to pay?
- josephernest 6y agoYou're right, all these aspects are important. If you add all these costs, such as electricty cost (3W * 24hr * 31day / 1000 * 0.15$/kwh ~ 0.33$/mo), it's hard to be both profitable and competitive. I'd pay maybe 2 or 2.50$ / mo, but I'm probably not a good example because I like running my own RPi at home and be able to tune things. Nice project anyway, good luck for staring your service!
- dylz 6y agoThe sellers are usually $1.99-2.99 for this.
- karakanb 6y agoDo you have some example sellers in mind?
- xupybd 6y agoIf I had an application that required ARM, else no. Even then it's extremely unlikely I don't consider the Pi 4 reliable enough to justify paying to have one professionally hosted.
- sparrc 6y agowhat would be the benefit of this versus a reserved t4g instance on EC2, for example?