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stuff like this makes me want to experiment with going back to just one huge $100k server and running it all on one box in a server rack.
by fswd 3y ago
stuff like this makes me want to experiment with going back to just one huge $100k server and running it all on one box in a server rack.
- sseagull 3y agoI am doing that. I am part of a research group, and don’t have the $$ or ability to pay so much for all these services. So we got a $90k server with 184TB of raw storage (SAS SSD), 64 cores, and 1TB of memory. Put it on a 10GB line at our university and it is rock solid. We probably have less downtime than Github, even with reboots every few months. Have some large (multi-TB) databases on it and web APIs for accessing the data. Would be hugely expensive in the cloud with, especially with egress costs. You have to be comfortable sys-admining though. Fortunately I am.