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I was a heavy Google user. My solution cost me some money. -I bought a U1 rack used off craigslist and have it hosted in a local data center. -I installed ESX
by nawtacawp 10y ago
I was a heavy Google user. My solution cost me some money.
-I bought a U1 rack used off craigslist and have it hosted in a local data center.
-I installed ESXi on it.
made a few VMs
-one runs pfsense and the rest of the VMs sit behind it
-one runs my email, contacts, calendars (mailinabox.email)
-one runs my cloud storage and private wiki
-a few others running projects I'm working
-each VM is fully encrypted at boot up.
- dhruvkar 10y agoThis sounds like the real deal. So you're no longer using anything Google? What did this cost approximately - the initial setup and the monthly recurring?
- nawtacawp 10y agoI'm using a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with a Intel Xeon 5345. 32GB RAM and 1TB HDD. It cost me about $400 -- which I think was a good deal. Then my only cost was the datacenter fees. Which runs about $50 per month -- includes 5 IP addresses and unl data. Like I said though, I use it for multiple things, not just e-mail/contacts/calendar/storage. EDIT: I believe the server costs a lot less now.