Raspberry Pi

Educational computing in the cloud

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Pay for your server annually and get 12 months for the price of 10.

This is a beta service, and shouldn't be used for nuclear power station command and control systems

Pay monthly

Billed monthly in advance

Pay quarterly

Billed quarterly in advance

Pay yearly

Billed yearly in advance

On demand

Billed monthly based on per-second usage

	Price	RAM	Cores	NIC	Monthly Bandwidth
Raspberry Pi 3	£5.75	1GB	4	100Mbps	1TB
Raspberry Pi 4	£7.25	4GB	4	1Gbps	1TB

Disk space

10 250

20p [ 20p per GB ]

Raspberry Pi

Our Raspberry Pi hosting service gives you access to a dedicated, 64-bit quad core ARM processor with 1GB or 4GB of RAM, backed by network storage. The server is supplied with the Raspbian operating system pre-installed.

Features

Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 — quad-core 64-bit ARMv8 processor
10GB - 250GB disk space
IPv6-only connectivity
Raspbian pre-installed
Instant remote power cycles
IPv4 to IPv6 HTTP/HTTPS proxy
IPv4 SSH access
Up and running in under 2 minutes
Per-second, on-demand billing available
Server management REST API

On-demand and pre-paid options

Servers can be paid for monthly, quarterly or annually in advance, with discounts for longer periods.

Servers can also be ordered with per-second on-demand billing. On-demand pricing is quoted as a monthly rate, but can be cancelled at any time and you will only be charged for the time that the server is provisioned.

Storage

Our servers netboot onto an NFS root file system. This approach has a number of benefits over using local flash storage on the Pi.

Network storage avoids the reliability and performance issues associated with flash storage, and gives us greater flexibility over the size of storage available.

Use of netboot also makes it impossible to “brick” the server: if you make the server unbootable, we can recover it by booting to a rescue image.

Please note that we do not take backups of the Raspberry Pi filesystems. If you require backups, please contact support for details of our backup services.

Connectivity

Servers come with IPv6 connectivity. We expose SSH over IPv4 via a gateway server, and the service includes access to our IPv4-to-v6 proxy, allowing you to host websites on an IPv6-only server.

Servers are currently being provisioned in the Meridian Gate data centre in London Docklands. Servers are connected to a switch on our core network with direct access via our fibre ring to multiple 10Gbps uplinks, including the London Internet Exchange (LINX) and LONAP.

Our Pi servers are connected to a managed switch providing power-over-ethernet (PoE). This allows you to power cycle your server at any time using our control panel.