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Lot's of companies lease their hardware, including servers. When that lease expires, that hardware goes on the reseller market dirt cheap. That's how I built my

Lot's of companies lease their hardware, including servers. When that lease expires, that hardware goes on the reseller market dirt cheap. That's how I built my own 17-node server cluster for my (failed) startup, turning what would have been $90K per month AWS expense into a $600 colocation expense. Owning and and maintaining your own servers is not hard at all, folks.

webmaven 10y ago
...I'm reasonably certain that GOOG, AMZN, MSFT, FB, etc. don't lease their hardware, but would be fascinated to learn otherwise.
- mattmanser 10y ago
  He's not talking about them, he's talking about normal companies, lots of places run their own servers. AWS/GCE/Azure are an order of magnitude more expensive than running your own. And usually have poor and unpredictable performance to boot.
  - webmaven 10y ago
    > He's not talking about them, he's talking about normal companies, lots of places run their own servers. Then his comment was tangential (at best, and non-responsive at worst) to the OP.
erelde 10y ago
> org at the scale of an Amazon > Owning and and maintaining your own servers is not hard at all, folks. Sysadmins are useless /s
- mcguire 10y ago
  Well, technically, maintaining a collocated rack of servers is not that different from maintaining a pile of virtual machines from your favorite provider.
HalcyonicStorm 10y ago
I'm interested in buying hardware for my own nefarious purposes. Can you post links?
- devopsproject 10y ago
  google "refurbished servers"
- DanBC 10y ago
  You can get it given to you if you print up some "free e-waste collection service" flyers. Here's one (Australian?) guy and his small business, with some examples of the stuff he collects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbMmuLDMx4Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbMmuLDMx4Y
- chrisper 10y ago
  You can find tons of used servers on ebay. That's where I bought all my homelab server stuff. Just don't buy very old stuff.
- 2bluesc 10y ago
  > I'm interested in buying hardware for my own nefarious purposes. Can you post links? Checkout some of the insane setups on DSLReports [0], check out the pics. Here's an example [1]. [0] https://www.dslreports.com/forum/homephotos https://www.dslreports.com/forum/homephotos [1] https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30877673-Darby-Weaver-The-Command-Center-and-Home-Office-Room-1 https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30877673-Darby-Weaver-The-...
- tiernano 10y ago
  places i found info was reddit homelab[1] and serve the home [2]. [1]: https://reddit.com/r/homelab https://reddit.com/r/homelab [2]: https://www.servethehome.com/ https://www.servethehome.com/
ck_one 10y ago
Interested as well. Where did you buy it?
- chrisper 10y ago
  You can find used servers on ebay.
2bluesc 10y ago
Gitlab is exploring moving their cloud setup to baremetal https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/

webmaven 10y ago

...I'm reasonably certain that GOOG, AMZN, MSFT, FB, etc. don't lease their hardware, but would be fascinated to learn otherwise.

mattmanser 10y ago
He's not talking about them, he's talking about normal companies, lots of places run their own servers. AWS/GCE/Azure are an order of magnitude more expensive than running your own. And usually have poor and unpredictable performance to boot.
- webmaven 10y ago
  > He's not talking about them, he's talking about normal companies, lots of places run their own servers. Then his comment was tangential (at best, and non-responsive at worst) to the OP.

erelde 10y ago

> org at the scale of an Amazon > Owning and and maintaining your own servers is not hard at all, folks. Sysadmins are useless /s

mcguire 10y ago
Well, technically, maintaining a collocated rack of servers is not that different from maintaining a pile of virtual machines from your favorite provider.

HalcyonicStorm 10y ago

I'm interested in buying hardware for my own nefarious purposes. Can you post links?

devopsproject 10y ago
google "refurbished servers"
DanBC 10y ago
You can get it given to you if you print up some "free e-waste collection service" flyers. Here's one (Australian?) guy and his small business, with some examples of the stuff he collects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbMmuLDMx4Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbMmuLDMx4Y
chrisper 10y ago
You can find tons of used servers on ebay. That's where I bought all my homelab server stuff. Just don't buy very old stuff.
2bluesc 10y ago
> I'm interested in buying hardware for my own nefarious purposes. Can you post links? Checkout some of the insane setups on DSLReports [0], check out the pics. Here's an example [1]. [0] https://www.dslreports.com/forum/homephotos https://www.dslreports.com/forum/homephotos [1] https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30877673-Darby-Weaver-The-Command-Center-and-Home-Office-Room-1 https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30877673-Darby-Weaver-The-...
tiernano 10y ago
places i found info was reddit homelab[1] and serve the home [2]. [1]: https://reddit.com/r/homelab https://reddit.com/r/homelab [2]: https://www.servethehome.com/ https://www.servethehome.com/

ck_one 10y ago

Interested as well. Where did you buy it?

chrisper 10y ago
You can find used servers on ebay.

2bluesc 10y ago

Gitlab is exploring moving their cloud setup to baremetal https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/