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Comment by stewie2 | Hacker News Reader

I hope there could be some ARM based cheap host service soon. some thing like linode, but on an ARM, not on virtual machine.

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Just buy a raspberry pi and ship it here: https://www.edis.at/en/server/colocation/austria/raspberrypi.... Supposedly free.

What would be the advantage of such a service?

Compared with virtualization, it would be more secure. If a dedicated ARM (or Atom) microserver were competitive with mid-range VPS, people would buy it.

Virtualization is "leaky", there are esoteric attacks against other guests on the same host that allow attackers to obtain encryption keys. Last time I checked, the mitigation strategy was to move to dedicated hardware.

I doubt dedicated microservers will be competetive with VPS for a while yet because you can't oversell them.

Well, in a sense, I can buy a RaspberryPi with the money of 2-3 months of linode (depending on the accessories you want)

But the "hard part" is not having the HW, but keeping it online 24/7. Geez, I don't even have DSL at home (long story)

With linode and others I can reinstall at the click of a button, I get a dedicated IP, etc

It may be easy depending on your situation, still, VPSs seems to have more advantages.

Dedicated Intel Atom hardware is already competitive with VPS services, for example you can see the Kimsufi stuff from OVH

https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml

Hosted in the USA or France, prices from £8.99 a month ($12?) for an Atom server with 2GB of RAM.

it's cheap

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