EDIS colocates Raspberry Pi for free?

CoolMoon

Just saw that...is that true? anyone interested? :)

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/colocate-your-raspberry-pi-in-a-massive-datacenter-for-free-20121010/

Liam

Yes it's true.

Nexus

Is it only available in Austria?

Wintereise

Available freely worldwide, I believe.

Liam

@Nexus said: Is it only available in Austria?

Only in their Austrian datacentre, yes.

Spencer

Only in Austria http://www.edis.at/en/server/colocation/austria/

zhuanyi

@CoolMoon said: Just saw that...is that true? anyone interested?

You have to pay for shipping + USB stick with OS preloaded/IP configured + USB power/data cable.

gsrdgrdghd

@CoolMoon said: anyone interested? :)

lol Edis has been offering that for 6+ months or so

Nexus

@Liam said: Only in their Austrian datacentre, yes.

Damn :( Lost hope

William

Yea, and it is still offered :)

Damian

What's the specs for transfer, then? As I recall, the Pi is hard-pressed to do more than 10 mbit/sec, so do they give 3000 gb/month?

(edit) Nevermind, read the article, dummy. Sigh.... (/edit)

klikli

Still waiting my Raspberry Pi to arrive - ordered in June and still nothing much here yet!

William

@Damian said: What's the specs for transfer, then? As I recall, the Pi is hard-pressed to do more than 10 mbit/sec, so do they give 3000 gb/month?

100Mbit shared / 100Gb Traffic :)

Wintereise

I meant you can order from wherever, it wasn't restricted to .at citizens.

But yeah, only available in the .at DC.

joodle

@William can we also order a RPi and let it ship to the datacenter?

Amfy

@joodle said: @William can we also order a RPi and let it ship to the datacenter?

I'm sure they would do that. You shouldn't forget: You also have to include a SD-Card/USB-Stick with preconfigured OS+network...

But anyway: Come on... NL -> AT isn't that far away, you can also ship that on your own :)

joodle

@Amfy said: I'm sure they would do that. You shouldn't forget: You also have to include a SD-Card/USB-Stick with preconfigured OS+network...

But anyway: Come on... NL -> AT isn't that far away, you can also ship that on your own :)

I know, was just a question lol

William

@joodle said: @William can we also order a RPi and let it ship to the datacenter?

Yes - You need to HAVE them write EDIS GmbH on them then AND ship an SD card with the preconfigured OS.

CoolMoon

What if the SD card is broken down? I have to ship the unit back and replace one then return it to Austria? Maybe they could sell some system SD cards and some USB flash drives for storage space to cover part of their cost...

Raymii

How would you do a reinstall? Reboot is pretty simple, power off, on.

Offtopic, since when is @Liam administrator? Last time I saw, it said mod?

zhuanyi

@Raymii said: How would you do a reinstall?

You don't...

Liam

@Raymii said: Last time I saw, it said mod?

I've never been a moderator.

William

@CoolMoon said: What if the SD card is broken down? I have to ship the unit back and replace one then return it to Austria?

Yes.

@CoolMoon said: Maybe they could sell some system SD cards and some USB flash drives for storage space to cover part of their cost...

We can't sell storage mediums (for taxing reasons, copyright tax)

How would you do a reinstall? Reboot is pretty simple, power off, on. Reimage.

netomx

is this still offered? Like, forever? Got several without use

eastonch

@Liam Community Currator?

William

@netomx said: is this still offered? Like, forever?

Yes/Yes

netomx

@William said: Yes/Yes

can you give me your address?? :)

William

@netomx said: can you give me your address?? :)

You need to order it for the IP data....

netomx

@William said: You need to order it for the IP data....

thank you! Just did that

Liam

Also on 'hacker'news :https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4636374

pcan

Has anyone here already put a Raspberry Pi on colocation at EDIS ? Does it work well ?

A limitation of Raspberry Pi is the need to reflash the SD card on a PC when upgrading to the next Raspbian major release, and this does not play well with colocation. Raspbian is the Raspberry Pi Debian port, and is pretty complete. Early Raspbian releases had a buggy driver that was causing packet loss at high CPU; this has been fixed on september Raspbian image. I was waiting for this fix before eventually shipping the board. A colocated Raspberry Pi could be a useful small backup server, to avoid storing data on shared disks.