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i remember the glued one was sd card ?
No cable is needed.
Has anyone who took up this (very generous) offer had their RPI switched on yet? I got the "parcel received" email about 2 weeks ago and was wondering who long the average wait was. I should point out that I'm not complaining - just curious.
Not trying to hijack this thread - but is there any interest in this in the US?
Yeah, I got mine set up in two days or something like that. They are probably just waiting to get a few and set them up at the same time
Yeah, I suppose there is.
there is a lot of interest, especially if you can offer decent bandwidth for a reasonable price. Like $50/year 100Mbit dedicated unmetered.
No one can do that.
@elwebmaster - Thats not going to happen at that price point. It wasn't because we were thinking about it, it was a personal question - is there any interest in this in the US because there seem to be a few in Europe doing it.
It doesn't even have to be free, just low cost. (I'd be interested)
You have to consider the cost people are paying for this and what they are getting out of it. A RPi at $35/year + $2/month (hypothetically) comes out to about $5/month. What do people get? 512MB RAM + dedicated ARM core (< Atom) + potentially unlimited storage + bandwidth. How is this better than a VPS? I think the only way this is better than a VPS is if you are making heavy usage of the CPU (but ARM is so slow, you may as well use 0.15 of a normal x86 CPU). OR if you are making heavy usage of the disk (SD/USB) + bandwidth. SD and USB drives are quite expensive if you want high capacity, thus the only thing this has over a VPS is the dedicated network port. That's why I think it is important to offer decent bandwidth package.
In EU a lot of people are using them for seedboxes. They are good for seedboxes because you can get as much disk space as you want, as opposed to most European lowend VPS offers which are tight on the disk.
But for US I think the main use would be storage/VPN/VoIP that kind of stuff, which needs good network. There definitely is high demand for US-based RPi colocation, I have seen a lot of questions in forums.
@elwebmaster - what do you think is the price point needed to make this work in the US?
$2/month with decent network. You can probably charge some setup fees. Like these guys: http://www.fusa.be/en/hosting/special_colocation they are offering only 100GB traffic though, but I think people expect more from a US-based offer.
While not directed at me I think a fair price is $5-10 per month.
The shipping costs more than the colo so you should offer Raspberry PI's at around $35 (They cost $25 for you)
The Raspberry PI doesn't come preloaded with an OS. If you sell RPis you need to consider the time you will spend setting them up for your customers, including setting up IP, root password, writing SD cards, etc. Then there is also the problem that people won't be able to choose the SD/USB they want. If you decide to sell RPis I suggest you allow your customers to ship the SD card & USB drive they want.
Thanks. I'll continue to be patient.
We've certainly got the space, network, cooling and power for it. The question is whether we can get enough traction to get our management interested.
Please give us some RPi server porn
You can, but more as a marketing/non-profit thing. Tying to make a buck on those boards is going to be difficult. Specially when they involve some manual work.
"some"
Hi,
Does it remain free after the first year ? I though in the past I read somewhere it was going to be charged after a year ?
Thanks
Out of stock again?
Of course. It is free, so the Colo flies
@William
My RPI went online today.
@MattCNS
When did you order it ?