Hey guys what are the best VPS prices over the globe?
I am wondering if it would be better if I run the MN through a raspberry pi from home.
I can get a raspberry pi 2 B (I heard the newest model 3 has got overheating issues therefor you should put a dissipator on it) + sd card + charger for something like 65$ from amazon.
I don't know the best VPS price, but you can obtain a host pretty inexpensively. A few dollars per month.
The problem with hosting at home on a Pi is that you probably don't have redundant internet, generators, battery backup, etc. All it takes is the occasional outage to put your masternode at the back of the payment queue, and at about 1.9-2.1 Dash per missed payment, it doesn't take many outages per year to make it worthwhile to host your masternode in a datacenter environment. Plus you avoid the upfront cost of the hardware. $65 will probably get you 1.5 to two years of hosting, plus you avoid outages (which earns you more Dash)
that makes the breakeven at least 2-3 years from now. If you are 100% sure you will keep the MN for that long, and that changes to the code will allow you to continue running the MN on that hardware, then might be worth it. Those are a lot of "ifs" and hassles in my opinion for not much of a payoff. I'd recommend hosted solution.
How's that? Monthly VPS cost is covered by a single MN payment which is $10 now and will hardly fall below $3 soon. Talking about "returning" the collateral, this will happen in about 10 years with current MN count. But as it slowly increases and PoW rewards slowly decrease, it is not likely to ever happen at all.
By the way, one of my VPS had recently had an about 12 hours downtime because of a power outage. But such incidents a very rare.
