RPI Servers - Micro Colo 1 Year Review

theuniverses

I signed up for RPI Servers (by Data Ideas) over 1 year ago for their Micro Colocation (think Intel NUC sized machines). This replaced a Raspberry Pi I was renting from them at the time.

Here is my experience and review:

• Getting setup was a breeze. Got the address in welcome email on where to ship to. Shipped it over to the datacenter via USPS Priority Mail. I was setup within 24 hours of delivery.
• No power outages or power issues. 100% power uptime.

• A couple network issues:

  • Cogent fiber cut took down the network for about a day
  • 2nd Cogent fiber cut. They had added a 2nd provider (Lumen) by this time, but it had limited capacity so the network was pretty saturated until Cogent was back up. They've since upgraded the Lumen circuit.

• @DataIdeas-Josh is very responsive via tickets and Discord.

  • Once I needed a manual reboot and it was taken care of very quickly after opening a ticket.
  • Recently migrated IP addresses to their own IP block and Josh was great about coordinating with me on the cutover.

• Really good value for the price.

I should note I don't run anything critical that would lose money if they were down.
Clearly they had some growing pains with the network but I have not had any downtime this year with them. Overall I am a happy customer and highly recommend if it fits your needs.

bruh21

Josh runs a good service

DataIdeas-Josh

@theuniverses and @bruh21 thank you so much for the kind words.
This means a lot to me. We have been working hard on consistently making our services better and better.
Thank you!