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I had never heard the term "Raspberry Pi Colocation" until today!
"FreeRangeCloud" offers it starting at $5.99/month (no affiliation, and I won't link lest I be accused of shilling), I'm not sure if there are any others. I think it sounds hilarious, but I bet it could be useful under the right circumstances.
I had heard of rPi dedicated hosting from various providers, but it's interesting to see other "high-end" services for these little boards as servers!
Anyone have "real-world" experience hosting a website on a rPi?
edit: looking at the link on that LEB post it looks like that company also offers rPi colocation services, I just never heard of it before today.
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That's @DataIdeas-Josh's baby right there.
Why not! ARM based servers are becoming somewhat common but still orange panel is not ready to support it.
https://features.cpanel.net/topic/as-web-hosting-provider-i-would-like-arm-server-support-so-that-allows-more-server-arch-options
I am currently working on this so @DataIdeas-Josh customers can install some sort of control panel and have a nice working webserver.
When devs do their devs on ARM CPUs there will be no barrier on ARM servers becoming main stream
tell him to try tinycp
Does it support ARM?
yes, I have used it on my oracle free arm instance (look in the oracle cloud-free tier and you will find it)
Actually the Main Raspberry Pi Org website was hosted on the new RPI4 when it came out.
All depends on how you manage things and if you are just running static or dynamic content.
dynamic not so much, static sure, but about anything will run a static site.
That is true. But if it has flashy GIFs or video files then things can turn sluggish.
Wait what... GIF / Videos are all client side and only consume nothing more than bandwidth. It won't even affect the performance of Rpi as server if it is hosted on CDN.
Well the bandwidth draw can load up the CPU as well. Thats why I was mentioning GIF/Video. However that is true. If you do like what @FAT32 mentioned and use a CDN as well. You would be golden!
Have we forgotten where we come from...
https://lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/
Wordpress on a 64MB VM is the second half of that article.
make a video trying to optimize an arm server enough to run wordpress or vanilla that can actually handle users, i'm sure @DataIdeas-Josh could sponsor one for a shoutout.
That's x86. I wonder on if be able to pull the same off of ARM?
It's that "handle users" part...no idea how it would scale. Then again, I don't think LEAdmin's 2009 64MB VM would scale to a lot of concurrency either.
The question is if a RPi 4 (Quad Core ARM @ 1.5Ghz, 2GB of RAM) would be able to match the performance of a 2009-era VM with 64MB of RAM. I would guess yes...but it's only a guess.
i bet theres huge improvements using an SSD instead of the normal SD Card. I know my RPI that I play around at home performs 5x better running off the SD Card!
Depends a lot on the SD card.
But now you can boot even off of USB.
Or even better, netboot.
Check this here:
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/161548/actual-updated-list-of-raspberry-pi-colocation-services#latest
Your list is way outdated.
Yes, i know
. Maybe I will find the time today to make an updatet version.
Check this for the actual version of my list:
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/172704/raspberry-pi-colocation-rpi-dedicated-server-providers-update-v-07-2021/p1?new=1
https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi
It is dedicated rather than colocated and I don't know much this will be to the liking of LETalkers. It is IPv6 with IPv4 connectivity for SSH access.
Ja
Nein
We offer both options with https://RPIServers.com AND you get IPv4 and IPv6