Well, its nice that ARM servers are coming available, even if they don't seem quite that desirable as they are.
Could be nice for ARM build CI server.<p>I wonder how the performance compares to say the scaleway[0] offerings, I would guess the SD card storage doesn't compare favourably.<p>Given that there are 6eur/mo one core intel dedis[1][2] and
16eur/mo 8core with 8gig ram and vastly more disk space[3], these seem a bit expensive.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/</a>
[1] <a href="http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/index.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/index.xml</a>
[2] <a href="http://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-scg2" rel="nofollow">http://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-scg2</a>
[3] <a href="http://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-xc" rel="nofollow">http://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-xc</a>
What exactly is stopping ARM boards to have high IO?<p>Just allow people to use a normal 2.5" SSD or even m2 and you have a really nice machine!<p>For example, the latest Raspberry Pi 2 has a quad-core CPU which is faster than my 1st machine (and maybe even my 2nd and 3rd) but is severly handicaped by the IO speed which is limited to USB (plus, all the USB ports and Ethernet using the same controller for extra slowness).<p>A quad-core ARM with a RAM slot supporting at least 8GB, a giga Ethernet port, 4 separate USB ports and a SATA connection would be glorious.
The 11.88 € option has an Exynos 5422 + 2 GB RAM + 32 GB MicroSD card -- those are guts of a Galaxy S5 or Galaxy Note 3 smartphone. Interesting choice for a server.
This is a <a href="http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php</a> ODroid XU4 if you are wondering, I have one of their ODroid C boards and find it quite useful.
Everyone who says this is a bad price for the hardware, please link me to any other bare metal server for rent at 16e/mo. I haven't seen it, not at Hetzner, nor anywhere else.<p>You can hate on it all you want, but this is simply a unique offering.