Rent a Raspberry Pi 3 on a native IPv6-only network

mythic-beasts.com

6 points·mfincham··5 comments

Mythic Beasts ran raspberrypi.org for a while on the RPi3 [0] and also host the RPi site. The price is pretty competitive (AUD96.40) compared to Czech [1] and Au hosting. [2] It's not only cost that would tempt me, it's the ISPs specialist knowledge of RPi.

Reference

[0] https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/the-little-computer-that-co...

[1] https://raspberry-hosting.com/en/order

[2] https://www.micron21.com/services/cloud-infrastructure-servi...

The part that I like the best about this one is that it gives you 1TB of transfer. Why? Overkill, no?

I think you'd still be better off going with Digital Ocean or something comparable. Probably performs about the same for a lower price.

Digital Ocean don't rent out Raspberry Pi or provide IPv6-only connectivity, so it's quite a different kettle of fish

True, DO has no Pis. Why does it have to be a Pi, though? With the 1TB of bandwidth and the focus on IPv6, I'd think it would be geared towards networking, so that makes the machine irrelevant.

DO does, rent out decent machines that have IPv6 connections. At that point you can just turn off the IPv4 interface. Done.

To address your 2nd point: as far as I know, Digital Ocean's IPv6 doesn't provide the things you'd need to run an IPv6-only server (e.g. there is no NAT64 or DNS64 gateway, no v4-to-v6 proxy for letting the v4 Internet reach your server).

And sure, if you just want a little bit of computing power and literally don't care where from, you might as well get a VM from somewhere like Digital Ocean instead of a Pi from Mythic Beasts, but that is beside the point. This is an offer to rent a Pi on an IPv6-only network, which nobody else is doing.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com