Raspberry Pi Hosting Facilities

Would you pay something like R50 for a Raspberry Pi 4 - 2GB RAM to be hosted

  • Yes

    Votes: 12 48.0%

  • No

    Votes: 13 52.0%
  • Total voters
    25
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Big Destroyer

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Hey, so I am trying to some market research. Let me know what you guys think
 
newklear said:
R50 once off is not so bad, how long would the hosting be ?
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R50 per month for the hosting service

maybe some thing like R100 for the 4GB version and R200 (maybe less) for the 8GB version
Just trying to get a feel for the demand there is out there especially the South African market
 
ThatGuy_ZA said:
What would the hosting include?
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And possibly a data cap or being a shaped internet line. And of course power already included. Basically the idea is to have a low cost server hosted on a Raspberry Pi that home users can use for whatever reason
 
Big Destroyer said:
And possibly a data cap or being a shaped internet line. And of course power already included. Basically the idea is to have a low cost server hosted on a Raspberry Pi that home users can use for whatever reason
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I'm curious as to what the possible use cases are here? Benefits versus an digital ocean droplet or other small cloud instance for something like a web server. Or if you want something for PI/ARM development in the cloud, would PI emulator or VM not make sense?

Don't get me wrong, I think hosted Pi is cool and could have lots of possibilities, just curious as to perceived benefits.
 
Depends on bandwidth, disks (SD, NVME, etc) used and power reliability.
 
InvisibleJim said:
I'm curious as to what the possible use cases are here? Benefits versus an digital ocean droplet or other small cloud instance for something like a web server. Or if you want something for PI/ARM development in the cloud, would PI emulator or VM not make sense?

Don't get me wrong, I think hosted Pi is cool and could have lots of possibilities, just curious as to perceived benefits.
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No hypervisor contention is reason enough for me.
 
Big Destroyer said:
Hey, so I am trying to some market research. Let me know what you guys think
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That's right in line with what I've seen previously on this topic (~2.5USD). Little bit above...but this is a pi 4 presumably so can be higher

Storage and how its hosted matters though. i.e. Is it attached to some sort of shared block storage or just the SD card?
 
Storage is the main concern.

Many people might use it to download torrents and then download from the Pi over ftp/http(s) or scp
 
Only reason I would do this is if it is cheaper than Digital Ocean and similar.
 
Thor said:
What would the benefit of this be over digital ocean / linode / ovh

Redundancy included
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Exactly. We've called those basic droplets "Pi in the sky" for years.
 
r00igev@@r said:
LAAAAAAAATENCY
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And a Pi 4 is fairly decent. But the issue is you are then relying on a small SD card to last for as long as one needs it to last. Suppose if its for disposable purposes hosted Pi is a good option.
 
Hi all, thanks for your comments. Power reliability would be best effort. I will definitely work something out in case Eskom strikes again. As for Storage I could perhaps add some backup option like giving a 10GB of storage the user can FTP to or can maybe try and see if I can work out expandable storage. As for renting or self providing, I would think to try to give a rental fee upon the monthly fee, else it can be omitted if the user provides himself the RPi
 
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