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@default Here is you a more updated one.
Well I got 5, RPI Zeros on the way to throw in the mix.
They should be activated and ready by Monday (January 25th, 2021).
There will be price changing however if you are already a current client with active RPI service your pricing will not go up from what you currently pay.
@DataIdeas-Josh
Thank you for the pictures...
I was planning on getting more boxes
How about a 2GB Pi4 with lots of traffic and a large (non SMR) HDD?
How do you reinstall? Seems hard to keep track of them all
Zeros (not W?) 512m x 1 core x 16GB with USB ethernet? How much per year?
We'll look into those.
Submit a ticket in.
Being a SD card we have to manually change the card out or reimage.
They are the W and will be 16GB space. I am thinking of $5/month for those but I might do a Annual special for all. Got to figure out the pricing for Annual.
you should invest in a custom pi 4 compute module pcb with pci expansion utilising the emmc chips.
make a main board that can handle 8 and expose the networking to ethernet switch chips. build your own iso image to enable custom installs and network boot for reuse after client payments end.
or talk to these guys: https://turingpi.com/turing-pi-2-announcement/
Probably not sustainable, but if you can offer something like the SoYouStart ARM dedis they will sell out like hot cakes.
For example I've been on this box for over a year now:
I'm not seeing the ARM options on SoYouStart website.
@ginner159 I've been looking at those.
We are building out a custom box and looking into custom IMG files to make it easier for clients to install their own OS. All takes times to build out.
How much do you charge for reinstalls?
We don't charge for reinstalls. But don't go asking for a reinstall every day. If you want to do constant reinstalls. We would HIGHLY recommend you getting your own RPI and running it at your home.
~Josh
Yeah they were discontinued over a year ago. I managed to snag the last wave of available ones I think.
Here's an archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190723152538/https://www.soyoustart.com/ie/server-storage/
@CyberneticTitan I wonder what kind of machines those are...
Same.
I love the idea of an ARM storage server.
Cheap and dedicated hardware without any noisy neighbors
What would you call cheap?
I wouldn't pay $5/m for a zero, unless maybe that included a huge drive
Even though the Zero it self is $10 for the W. You have to add in storage costs, bandwidth, power, rack space. In the case for the ZeroW. Lets add this all up.
Pi0w - $10
Power supply - $9
16GB SD card - $6
Shipping to me - $7.50
Lets add that up - $32.50
Now lets see what that would cost per month if we keep within the one year warranty.
$32.50 / 12 = $2.71
Now lets add in rack, power usage, and bandwidth.
Power - $0.075
Rack - $0.10
Bandwidth - 5Mbps on average sustained - $1.75
Now we are at $4.64/Month
What about Fees...
$0.05+5%($0.24) = $4.93
So Asking $5 I am only making a whole $0.07 per RPI Zero W.
AND that's not including the rest of the networking gear, or IPs.
Now you are welcome to get a RPI Zero and add in an External HDD
If you do that you can get you a Small 16TB "cloud" ~$20 a month... Now where can you get a 16TB cloud server for ~$20 a month???
All depends on how you look at things.
~Josh
Probably something the same or better (Maybe slightly higher $/gb if cpu/ram is better) than the SoYouStart offering that used to exist. I think anything around that price range posted on this site would likely sell quite fast (Though I'm no expert LOL)
Probably reproducing it with a Pi as a bundled hdd offer rather than drive colo would be good
I'll also add I'm currently using my SYS ARM box as a long term seeding box so I am pushing 200+ Mbps upload 24/7 and I imagine many are the same.
For sustainability probably want some throttling or policies in place.
@CyberneticTitan I'm really wanting to stay away from having to log TB/month but more as I move forward I might just have to.
@DataIdeas-Josh Thanks for breaking it down. I don't dispute the costs, just the utility for the cost. I'd rather have a rpi4 with more RAM and horsepower. Or maybe the zero but with a large drive I send in for backup use. Just my opinion though, and I'm stoked you're offering rpi hosting period!