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Colocation of my raspberrypi
winterisnice
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Raspberry Pi Model B
Connectivity: at least 50-100mbps
Location: US
Ips: 1
Power: I dont even know
Anyone willing to sit this bad boy on your rack 
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@arpanjot
Just FYI i doubt the Raspbery Pi can actually push 50/100Mbps of internet traffic.
Banana pi, more power
Hmm
I was in talk with a few DC and they still wanna charge me $80 for colo.
checkout https://www.mininodes.com
though I did not try them myself
Depends what you're doing... Serving static files you'll approach 100Mbps easily, especially if smaller than RAM. Serving SSL encrypted data from a poorly-optimised SQL database with badly written PHP is another story...
Only if you have no USB device attached - the ethernet port (which is a USB chip) and the 2 USB ports are on the same hub to a single 2.0 port on the SoC.
Other boards did this much better.
Yup, as with any computer you can set it up sub-optimally
. This is what I was driving at with 'if smaller than RAM' comment - its unlikely you'd have anything other than storage hanging off the USB for a colo'd Pi.
I can do this for 45 euro a year, in the Netherlands though.
Yes, but a good USB stick is likely to do 400Mbps+ read, which will cause issues with the BW for the network port.
I agree here. I have a Raspberry Pi 1 B. I only had it connected to power and LAN + SD card with the OS. The SD is fast in terms of reading. 18 MB/s. I transfered a file locally and couldn't get more than 2 MB/s off the Raspberry Pi over LAN.
It is unfortunately very limited due to what @William explained and its limited processing power. The Raspberry Pi 2 might be much better at this. There are other solutions like the DROID thingy that actually has enough power to do 100 Mbit/s (it even has a GigEthernet).
Banana Pi M2 can push up to 700 Mbps.
My shopping list has this on it for Dec, due to SATA and GigE. 35EUR in DE/AT/EU.
http://www.bananapi.org/p/product.html
Still need one that does native PXE though, we want to do iSCSI for the storage on our central SAN - You can do that with small kernel/bootloader on SD/eMMC/whatever, but it's not native
I would not want to do iSCSI on 100Mbit though.
Any other cheap boards with good features?
I meant the ODROID XU4 but it's not so cheap like RPi/Bananapi.
URL: http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G143452239825
Mind to provide details? Only RPi or also Bananapi?
Ill host it in the UK for you for £5 per month, 1 ip address, 1tb bandwidth.
I think BananaPi, will contact a colleague about this. It will be colocated in Rotterdam, the Netherlands with an 1Gbit uplink and 500GB monthly bandwidth.
@William if you want to do a NAS type setup the best one for it right now in the sub $50 range is the BananaPi with the A20 chipset. The A20 actually has a sata chipset that isn't USB bound, while if you choose for example one of the new OrangePi H3 SoC's they are attached to the USB chip. You can expect a max of 45M/sec write and ~100M/sec read though because the NIC has to be attached to a single core, the max throughput you will get on the NIC is 50M/sec anyways. If you are serious about setting up something like this, especially if you want to use a port multiplier or a port multiplier with raid, ping me on irc and I will give you some more details and resources you will want to review for tuning things.
There are some more expensive, yet slower Marvel chipset ARM boards out there that have the built on direct SATA chipset which can accomplish better speeds and are used in many comercial NAS units, however the cheapest you are going to get these types of boards if not ordered in bulk is something like $150. There is also the newer Cubieboards which have SATA on them which I understand perform a lot better, but these are easily more than $100 to get.
Edit: I see now you meant boot off a SAN, my apologies I read too quickly. Check this out for use with A20 (BananaPi): linux-sunxi.org/How_to_boot_the_A10_or_A20_over_the_network
Cheers!
Picked up 2 of these for $15 USD ea. http://www.orangepi.com/orange-pi-pc-board.
Only gripe is that you can't use the USB OTG port for power.
Problem is with the H3 boards there is a lot of dev lacking, it isn't fully supported by mainline yet, so you are limited to the specific distributions that were put together on the older 3.x kernels. Not a huge issue but if you wanted to run mainline on it you would be disappointed.
While the H3 is a nice quad core SoC it doesn't have the same support and backing you see withe the RPi or the Allwinner chipsets (A10, A20, A13, etc). Eventually as the support does get better and drivers are produced it will be a nice thing to have with the additional processing power, but for now if your using it for anything other than a cheap media server with their specific distributions your gonna be a bit out of luck.
my 2 cents.
Cheers!
I run Debian on mine, does Ngninx, OpenVPN and DNS fine, so it suites my needs.
Also buying 2 for less than the price of a Pi is nice.
Still have a RPi2 for Openelec though, the odroid and orangepi both do not have the support for media that the Pi has.