With the Raspberry Pi 4 now shelling out some critical efficiency, corporations are speeding to search out retailers for its cheap computing energy.
Ikoula, a French web hosting provider has now rolled within the credit-card sized pc as a part of its internet hosting plans.
This isn’t the primary time a net host has provided customers a likelihood to energy their web sites with a Raspberry Pi. Earlier this yr we reported on Cambridge-based Mythic Beasts’ collaboration with the Raspberry Pi Foundation to supply internet hosting powered by the miniscule machine.
Micro energy
Ikoula lists the Raspberry Pi 4-powered plans below its Dedicated server plans. Colourfully dubbed because the ‘Micro Server’, the plans are probably the most primary ones provided by the corporate.
The firm additionally lists a number of makes use of for its Micro Server plan together with the power to run your personal mail server, a net server, and even a VPN server.
The Micro Server plan makes use of the 4GB Raspberry Pi 4 mannequin powered by an ARM Cortex A72 clocked at 1.5Ghz. It prices €4.99/month and runs Raspbian by default, however you can even select to change to Ubuntu 20.04 for no additional cost.
For storage the server makes use of a 16GB SDCard. But if you happen to want extra disk house you will get a 120GB SSD drive, which is able to push the worth of the plan to €9.99/month.
The service makes use of IPv6 by default, although it does provide the choice to change to IPv4, which is able to price you one other €2.5/month.
We couldn’t discover particulars about any bandwidth caps on the plan. Also on the face of it they give the impression of being equally priced to the Mythic Beasts plans.
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