Free RPI Colo

FatGrizzly

I searched a few old threads about free RPI Colo services. Do still any of providers offer them? Do any of you who colo'd in the past for free still have them running?

FatGrizzly

Dumbass me just realised I put it under wrong category, Apologies. Kindly move it. Thanks.

Ian_Dot_Tech

I am unsure if anyone would offer free colo anymore.
However, even though its not free his pricing is quite reasonable.
@DataIdeas-Josh offers raspberry pi colo last I knew.

yoursunny

Joshua Prout would do it, but you won't see your hardware back.
www.joshua-prout.is-a-scam.org

We can do it too, but you have to perform the initial setup yourself.
South Pole colocation

FatGrizzly

@Ian_Dot_Tech said:
I am unsure if anyone would offer free colo anymore.
However, even though its not free his pricing is quite reasonable.
@DataIdeas-Josh offers raspberry pi colo last I knew.

I'm not looking to Colo my Pi yet. The free Colo thing in the past caught my eye and I wanna see if anyone's hardware is still being colo'd for free. I myself would vouch for Josh. Truly reasonable prices.

@yoursunny said:
Joshua Prout would do it, but you won't see your hardware back.
www.joshua-prout.is-a-scam.org

We can do it too, but you have to perform the initial setup yourself.
South Pole colocation

I'll Colo my PI at south pole this weekend.

yoursunny

@FatGrizzly said:

@yoursunny said:
We can do it too, but you have to perform the initial setup yourself.
South Pole colocation

I'll Colo my PI at south pole this weekend.

If you have difficulty acquiring Raspberry Pi or Orange Pi or Banana Pi or Nano Pi or NUC or Fire Stick during this component shortage, we can colo pumpkin pie and strawberry cheesecake and Germanchökolätekäke too.
Our industry leading technology makes it possible for anything that resembles a pi to come online from our data center.

DataIdeas-Josh

@yoursunny said:

@FatGrizzly said:

@yoursunny said:
We can do it too, but you have to perform the initial setup yourself.
South Pole colocation

I'll Colo my PI at south pole this weekend.

If you have difficulty acquiring Raspberry Pi or Orange Pi or Banana Pi or Nano Pi or NUC or Fire Stick during this component shortage, we can colo pumpkin pie and strawberry cheesecake and Germanchökolätekäke too.
Our industry leading technology makes it possible for anything that resembles a pi to come online from our data center.

NUCs are still around.
Per @lanefu Would stay away from the other "Pi's" But would let them chime in more on that one.

Its a mixup nowadays for colo of RPi's or other Pi sized devices.
We have https://RPiServers.com that its pretty cheap just to use a dedicated Pi.
Been seeing quite a few people get those Micro PCs like this https://www.ebay.com/itm/234684096902 and colo them.

plumberg

@DataIdeas-Josh said:

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Been seeing quite a few people get those Micro PCs like this https://www.ebay.com/itm/234684096902 and colo them.

I actually have an intelNUC idling at home. If I need to idle it in your DC, how much would it put me back?

DataIdeas-Josh

@plumberg said:
I actually have an intelNUC idling at home. If I need to idle it in your DC, how much would it put me back?

Our Micro Colo is $24.99 and comes with a 1Gbps pipe.
Can do BGP and bring your own IPs as well at no extra charge.

plumberg

@DataIdeas-Josh said:

@plumberg said:
I actually have an intelNUC idling at home. If I need to idle it in your DC, how much would it put me back?

Our Micro Colo is $24.99 and comes with a 1Gbps pipe.
Can do BGP and bring your own IPs as well at no extra charge.

Awesome. But for now that's a bit more for my budget. Thank you 😊

lanefu

@DataIdeas-Josh said: Per @lanefu Would stay away from the other "Pi's" But would let them chime in more on that one.

Its a mixup nowadays for colo of RPi's or other Pi sized devices.

More like stay away from the ecosystem.. I'm just jaded because of all the unpredictability....

SBC Vendors I like: Odroid, Radxa, Libre Computer

BPI folks are historically the laziest at support... but I'll say that they're starting to actually work with Armbian to try harder...

OPI is well a little better but same situation...

A Good SBC is always based on weird blend of which SOC, vendor and BOARD REVISION (cuz yeah supply chain woes wrecked our world)

Rockchip RK3399 are usually pretty mature and there's a lot of good options on that front i'd consider moderately trust worthy:

• Pine Rock64Pro (real PCIe slot)
• OPI4 (can't speak for newer LTS revision) (don't try nvme or pcie on this one they screwed up their pathing on the board)
• Raxda Rock pi 4A, 4A+, 4B, 4B+, 4C.. Maybe 4C+ it's got mainline support now. (NVMe with an adapter board or you can commit some crimes without.

Rockchip RK3568 family boards:

• Odroid M1+ (clean install for nvme on this one)
• Radxa Rock3a (might need to bench test)
• The Firefly Station series is probably fine

Wait on deploying any RK3588 board.. you really don't want the Rockchip Vendor kernel in a colo.. (although you'll probably catch me doing at some point in time since I have uhhh more than 1 16GB Rock 5b)

Amlogic stuffs...

• Libre computer Le Potato (gonna be like an rpi3 equivlanet)
• Odroid C4
• Odroid HC4 (love this thing)

Would avoid odroid N2/N2+ due to back track record with USB bus power.

DataIdeas-Josh

@plumberg said:

@DataIdeas-Josh said:

@plumberg said:
I actually have an intelNUC idling at home. If I need to idle it in your DC, how much would it put me back?

Our Micro Colo is $24.99 and comes with a 1Gbps pipe.
Can do BGP and bring your own IPs as well at no extra charge.

Awesome. But for now that's a bit more for my budget. Thank you 😊

Hit me up on discord and we can talk some more about your requirements.

plumberg

@DataIdeas-Josh said:

@plumberg said:

@DataIdeas-Josh said:

@plumberg said:
I actually have an intelNUC idling at home. If I need to idle it in your DC, how much would it put me back?

Our Micro Colo is $24.99 and comes with a 1Gbps pipe.
Can do BGP and bring your own IPs as well at no extra charge.

Awesome. But for now that's a bit more for my budget. Thank you 😊

Hit me up on discord and we can talk some more about your requirements.

Super. Sure thing. Thank you.