I have 4 DL360s with 96GB RAM each to run a K8s cluster with a handful of containers
If someone is paying you to host those and covering your costs, go wild! However, as a hobby you may be spending $925/year or more for electricity to run those in the Midwest. $1,387 if you’re living in Boston, $1,850 if you’re living in California.
In one year you may have been able to buy more new power efficient hardware from just what you’re spending on juice.
I have 4 DL360s with 96GB RAM each to run a K8s cluster with a handful of containers
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your internal use only web-app for syncing your garage door with your media sever don’t need all that
YOU DONT KNOW ME
Lies
Yea! He just needs a single dual proc server with 1TB of RAM like mine instead!
😂 are you consuming market data for the entirety of North America?
If someone is paying you to host those and covering your costs, go wild! However, as a hobby you may be spending $925/year or more for electricity to run those in the Midwest. $1,387 if you’re living in Boston, $1,850 if you’re living in California.
In one year you may have been able to buy more new power efficient hardware from just what you’re spending on juice.
I am sure there are people who spend more than that in a year on their own hobbies.
My point is, you can possibly spend the same money and get better hardware that isn’t so power hungry and have a better experience with your hobby.
Fuck it, we ball