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@iwaswrongonce - seriously buy one (I bought one as just a download box at home that didn't take much power. After playin with it a bit I love it lol.
But seriously go get one and just try and see what you can so. Push the thing until it crashes or whatever. (I've tried and it is still going)
Oh, I definitely plan on getting one for home. Bet it would be fun to play around with. That's exactly my point though, is it was designed to be a lower power, general purpose computer for the masses.
It just doesn't make sense in a DC. The idea behind a data center is by being a dense center of computing, economies of scale are reached with lower costs and higher levels of efficiency.
Well in Australia for example (where I'm from) the fastest net speed we can get is 24mbit (in the bigger cities) 8mbit in most and where I am I get an awesome 1-3mbit.
I personally would put it in a data centre as it's low cost (and the dc knows it) and they are easy to use and putting them in a dc is just the hip thing to do. Out of the 2000 hosted a pcextreme I would say not even 1/3 are actually been used for anything.
Just a fun bit of technology. Supporting innovative ideas. And hey.. Marketing ploys (edis) work. They really do
I'm using mine for smokeping. But it is heavy tough. Average load 0.38. (http://pi.f63.net/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi?target=servers)
Should give it to me I will put it to good use lol
My rpi @ home is currently just downloading some tv shows I missed last week http://uptime.evoburst.com
Doing average 0.03
More like 50-100 and with some tasks, even 1000.
Will someone explain to me why people would preferrably not buy cheaper tablets with the same or more powerful specs
I have seen dual core tablets going for under $50 ! Quad core with the same price isnt far away, why not just colocate a tablet with a usb/lan port......
vps does not give you a real, literally "hands on rip" experience. Like a buddy of mine says: nerds normally feel orgasm when they touch hardware or visit a datacenter.
quality, and I don't know where to plug some IO on the tablet
The RPi is manufactured in the UK not somewhere overseas. It's a product made with a sane mind for people to dig into technology.
AFAIK, not all of them are made in the UK
I like to think of it as the upgraded arduino. It's the smallest computer that I know of that can actually function as a computer. What other reasons does one need!
Again, that makes sense. That was what it was designed for, to be applied to uses that traditional computing form factors couldn't. Hosting it in a datacenter makes no sense.
Eh, not sure what you mean. If you mean it's the cheapest way to get bare metal, I guess. But really what do you gain from that vs. a Xen/KVM instance? The differences only become evident in high load environments, which the RPi is not.
there fun to pay around with, my life wouldn't be complete without my Pi!
I don't know either! A cheap thin client is so much better.
I don't see how a host would be interested in hosting a Raspberry Pi for just a few dollars a month. You can't automate the setup and provisionment of a RPi -- someone is going to need to physically provision the device. A dozen RPI setups would eat up a considerable amount of sysadmin time.