After seven years in existence, miniNodes, a Phoenix-based provider of bare-metal Raspberry Pi hosting services, has grown out of its first data center — also known as founder David Tischler’s home office.
Tischler says he now has 40 to 50 customers, which he serves from a small rack of Raspberry Pis in his home, networked using Cisco routing, firewall, and switching, with a dedicated internet connection, “so it’s not sharing with my kids streaming YouTube or something.”
“It started here,” Tischler told DCK, “but I now have underway an expansion to a data center with a partner of mine in Texas.”
The new home of miniNodes will be a colocation data center in Austin, where Tischler and his new partner have already installed some…
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