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Free Raspberry Pi Hostin¦Colocation

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  • 21-04-2013 4:45pm
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    Allyall
    Registered Users Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭


    Saw this and signed up.

    Worth a shot to find out if it's any use. I think it's only free for 12 months.

    http://raspberrycolocation.com/home/
    Free Raspberry Pi Hosting

    For the surprisingly low price of € 0,- you will get a super fast network connection and 500 GB worth of traffic. Seats are limited so try not to wait too long! (Although that probably wouldn't be too hard)
    Get started



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    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    Interesting idea.

    As you mentioned, it's free for the first year, but will be automatically renewed next year unless you contact them one month in advance.
    So I assume you must register with your credit card.

    I imagine you would be locked to use the disto you have on your SD card when you post it over. Unless there's a facility to post a new SD card during the year to be reinserted into the Pi.

    I wonder what happens if the rPi fails?


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    Allyall
    Registered Users Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    Interesting idea.

    As you mentioned, it's free for the first year, but will be automatically renewed next year unless you contact them one month in advance.
    So I assume you must register with your credit card.

    I imagine you would be locked to use the disto you have on your SD card when you post it over. Unless there's a facility to post a new SD card during the year to be reinserted into the Pi.

    I wonder what happens if the rPi fails?

    I didn't enter any credit card details, and i used an email account that is unattached to paypal or any other payment options.

    Worth a look at it anyway, i thought.


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    jarvis
    Registered Users Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭jarvis


    I don't get it and I'm sure I'm not the only one. What exactly is this? Been considering getting a PI for a while so I don't have one at the moment so obviously not an expert.


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    Allyall
    Registered Users Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    jarvis wrote: »
    I don't get it and I'm sure I'm not the only one. What exactly is this? Been considering getting a PI for a while so I don't have one at the moment so obviously not an expert.

    TBH, it's more for me to mess about with, thought other people might be interested in it.

    I bought 2 pi's. One of the main reasons i bought a 3rd one, was for my sister, so that she could set up a cloud at home :).
    This puts the cloud back out again. The 1st gen Pi wouldn't be the best for this, as it would be verrrryy slow.

    The idea behind this is to gather a community in the cloud, hosting OS's, helping people in development, and other things you may use the Pi for.

    There is more info below and what you can use it for.

    Use it for hosting etc...
    More info HERE


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    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    jarvis wrote: »
    I don't get it and I'm sure I'm not the only one. What exactly is this? Been considering getting a PI for a while so I don't have one at the moment so obviously not an expert.

    Let's say you wanted a little Web Server or internet service running constantly on the internet.

    You could set up your Raspberry Pi then connect it to your home router and open up some ports in your routers firewall to make it publicly accessible from the internet.

    This crowd are basically saying, set up your Raspberry Pi, then post it to us.
    We'll plug it into our power supplies and network connections and let your Raspberry Pi use our network connections ( free broadband ).
    So it's free broadband and free electricity.

    It would really suit someone who is already running a Raspberry Pi constantly in their home and wanted it available publicly and not eating up their internet bandwidth.


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