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The premise was kinda dumb, wouldn't be surprised if its just a scam.
by JVIDEL 6mo ago
The premise was kinda dumb, wouldn't be surprised if its just a scam.
- tosti 6mo agoMore likely a prank.
- type0 6mo agoI would like to put my Raspberry Pi Pico in colocation, would it work?
- QuantumNomad_ 6mo agoThere are a number of places that colocate normal Raspberry Pi. https://lowendbox.com/blog/little-machines-in-big-datacenters-where-to-host-your-raspberry-pi/ https://lowendbox.com/blog/little-machines-in-big-datacenter... I am sure that some of them either already colocate Pico ones too, or are willing to do so if asked.
- gzread 6mo agoThe Pi Pico doesn't have networking capabilities, so that would be silly. You're probably thinking of the Pi Zero.
- kube-system 6mo agoThere is a Pico W
- kube-system 6mo agoI think it's most likely testing the waters for a real offering. It's not that weird. Many colo data centers already have policies about hosting laptops because it's already something that happens. It just isn't common and usually isn't for hosting servers.
- dylan604 6mo agoIf the battery in the laptop is still good, it comes with it's own UPS. My MBPs haven't had an ethernet port in a minute, so do you have to supply your own adapters as well??? You could fit ~15 MBPs on their edge in 9RUs. That'd be an interesting looking rack. Not quite a blade chassis. It'd be rather boring looking as there's no blinky-blinkies
- oceanplexian 6mo agoPutting a UPS in a rack is a prosumer/corporate IT thing, it’s not done in real datacenters. They typically have their own UPS in another room and multiple power lanes. And it’s going to be much more reliable than a laptop battery.
- dylan604 6mo agoI didn't really think that any of what I wrote would be taken seriously to the point of needing a retort. I mentioned blade servers and knew rack unit measurements which as context clues would have suggested I was familiar with actual data center equipment.
- icepush 6mo agoI read the reply to your comment not as much as an answer to your statement but a general warning to anyone who might be reading.
- gosub100 6mo agoA laptop battery would be a huge liability if it caught fire.
- kube-system 6mo agoAnd yet most homes and offices are full of them. Laptop batteries don't usually catch fire. At the colos I am familiar with (which have pretty strict rules, generally), you can have equipment with batteries as long as you regularly inspect them.
- kube-system 6mo agoThe title says PoC, so I presume it's a PoC.
- PaulHoule 6mo agoSo many people want to believe in this sort of thing for various reasons that I get fatigued at the very thought of trying to explain to people who believe in it earnestly that it is not a good idea. (e.g. commercial hosting services are really competitive; for a long time the cost of computing has been going down over time though I don't know if that is reversing because we've hit the end of the real Moore's law [1] or if it is a temporary blip) [1] the motor behind it is cost reduction, once that stops it stops because we can't afford it anymore!
- oceanplexian 6mo agoWell, it exists, but it exists if you’re willing to buy server hardware on eBay, hustle to get old parts working together, negotiate a good deal on a cabinet, get space from ARIN and announce it and so on. There are probably 10-50x cost efficiencies vs. renting 5 year old CPU families on AWS at huge markup. A laptop isn’t the way to do that though. And your typical VC-fueled startup isn’t going to know how to do it either. It takes a very narrow slice of competence to be able to do that correctly.
- jeron 6mo agothe one guy I know who has worked with colo at scale (unfortunately in the crypto space) is now an EM at Goog