MiniNodes: ARM/Linux hosting on dedicated hardware

[axaxs]

Very nice. Some comments/questions, in no particular order - 1 - Price. 9.99 isn't breaking the bank, sure, but kimsufi has a better price for a much better processor and package. 2 - Any plans on 64 bit as it becomes available? 3 - More options for OS/custom OS installation. 4 - Bandwidth charges, port speed, etc not immediately easy to find. 5 - Would love to see these on backed storage.

[mininodes]

@axaxs

We definitely plan on moving up to 64-bit once lower cost alternatives are released in to the channel. Right now AMD Opteron A57's run $2,999, so, they are not very cost effective.

OS choices are more limited in the ARM ecosystem, so we went for the two most popular choices (available) first: Ubuntu and Fedora.

And, Bandwidth for now is unmetered, and set to 100mbit port speed. Hope that helps!

[mrmondo]

Interesting idea but $10/mo is more than twice what I pay for a full dual core server with 160GB of SSD cached RAID10 and 1GB of ram...

[general_failure]

Wow, which vps?

[msh]

Does not sound very stable or reliable:

With the recent leak of an SDK for the Allwinner A80 ARM processor, it is now possible to build Linux for the Optimusboard. However, the SDK does not appear to be a final build, and has quite a few bugs that have to be squashed before the build will successfully complete.

From: http://www.mininodes.com/how-to-build-linux-for-the-allwinne...

Hosting on Linux using a leaked sdk , not my sort of thing.

[api]

They don't host on that. It's just a how to post.

[asaddhamani]

Wow, this is pretty cool. I've looked at Raspberry Pi hosts before, and almost all of them require you to ship the hardware to them.

[mininodes]

@msh - We don't host live nodes on that SDK. That is only some documentation for the community. =)