Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud

Or you could just buy a Raspberry PI, and send it to EDIS in Austria: <a href="http://www.edis.at/en/server/colocation/austria/raspberrypi/" rel="nofollow">http://www.edis.at/en/server/colocation/austria/raspberrypi/</a><p>And there you get FREE symmetrical 100mbit connection with no monthly payment. And you can always get your Raspberry Pi back if you need to, you just need to pay a few euros for postage.

Can I ask why (without trying to sound awful and steal someone's front page thunder)? If you want to do something interesting with the Pi you'll probably be wanting to connect other hardware to it. You can't when it is in the cloud. Otherwise, it is just a general purpose Arm/Linux board that has far less power than anything else you could get in the cloud-o-spehere...so I'm just genuinely wondering what you would use this for? Plus, the hardware is so cheap ($25-35 USD), it sorta defeats the purpose of HW in the cloud to save cost (hardware as a service, e.g. EC2, etc)..

I forgot I had this extension enabled: <a href="https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt</a> and hilarity ensued.

I love it. See what happens when you click one of the "Buy" buttons.

BTW I'd like to thank the guys at Zurb for producing Foundation. The whole Pinode site took less than 45 minutes to write, of which we spent about ten minutes on the design and the rest on the jokes. And we'd never done anything with Foundation before. Definitely a fantastic framework for putting a product site together quickly.

This should have been saved for 1 April. It's good advertising though, and since it hit the front page of HN it's probably driving a ton of traffic to their site.

Would love to see some pictures of the 'data centre'

One of the best features of the RPI is integration with other hardware (i2c, SPI, GPIO). It's neat to toggle a motor from a bash prompt. When that goes away, it's just a linux box. It looks like you are having fun though, so I applaud that. Edit: I guess the joke was lost on me.

How do you do the DVI video capturing? Framegrabbers and IP KVM modules are dead expensive, AFAIK - and how do you handle reformatting?

I call BS, I would really like to see someone prove that these are all really raspi units and not just Debian Squeeze instances running on a virtual server.<p>Also, I have a raspi myself. The beauty of the raspi is not that you get to eat the pie, its that you get to make it yourself. Cloud connected? I think you mean Internet, not cloud. You know, unless these are Debian Squeezes on a virtualized box. Don't have the time? Then you can't have this hobby. End of rant.

Excellent!<p>I was about to close the webpage when I looked at more than just the bronze subscription.

I so wanted this. :(

Shouldn't this announcement have waited about a week?

love it!