I picked up a few refurbished dell servers off Ebay for super cheap a while back - and usually use these with Cloudflare Argo tunnels to host various servers. H

I picked up a few refurbished dell servers off Ebay for super cheap a while back - and usually use these with Cloudflare Argo tunnels to host various servers. However, since these are just sitting on the floor next to my desk, usually rely on cloud for any applications with high uptime requirements. Recently though, I've been working on some distributed systems type projects which would allow these servers to be put in different physical locations (and power grids), and still continue to operate as a cohesive whole. This type of technology definitely increases my confidence in them being able to reliably host servers. I wouldn't want to be reliant on the cloud for large scale services though, from my understanding you can get some crazy cost savings by colocating some physical servers (especially for large data storage requirements).