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> 1. Using pre loved (= second hand) rack servers in the > living room with redundant PSUs will cause a lot of > trouble with every female living in the same

by bArray 6y ago

> 1. Using pre loved (= second hand) rack servers in the > living room with redundant PSUs will cause a lot of > trouble with every female living in the same household. It > is too noisy.... A great time to remind your partner that these projects put the bread on the table. Also remind them how much money it is saving. There is of course always the possibility to move it elsewhere. > 2. Consumer grade hardware is pretty reliable nowadays. It really de[ends on what you're running and how much a crash with affect you. For example, a bit flip in RAM could be catastrophic. Or hard drive failure could be a serious problem (despite backups), in which case you might want some commercial grade RAID. You also get some nice server specific silicon on your dedicated hardware that you might not otherwise, that could seriously speed up your application under high-load conditions.

rovr138 6y ago
> A great time to remind your partner that these projects put the bread on the table. Also remind them how much money it is saving. My wife does all the ML and graph stuff off of her laptop and an external disk. After developing on her laptop, she just SSH’s into her cluster at work and schedule’s her job on whatever queue she needs. I, mainly doing web projects, have and keep a small homelab. Even in the article, they’re just doing it for the sake of saving time and not having to wait for the VM to load. Not really a requirement. Specially looking at the benchmarks at the end. That’s just the wrong argument.
- bArray 6y ago
  > After developing on her laptop, she just SSH’s into her > cluster at work and schedule’s her job on whatever queue > she needs. Then I would imagine your partner is understanding. I would imagine most situations would be where one partner is computing orientated and the non-computing partner might not understand why there is this massive electric munching air breathing rack in their house. > That’s just the wrong argument. Clearly I was responding to the points in the parent comment, not specifically the article.
  - rovr138 6y ago
    Not really. I mean, she's sympathetic to the fact that I want them, sure. But who really wants servers in a corner on the living room, cluttering and making noise. It's a hobby maintaining them, but I could easily turn off vm's, turn on other vm's with some wait time. It would be cool to have them and swap quickly, but I could still do without them. I tried buying a used 1u server and put it under the sofa so it wouldn't be seen, but the sound was insane. Quickly got turned off by me since it was just too much when watching tv. Now we have a house and have space to put them away but that wasn't true for a long time.

by bArray 6y ago

rovr138 6y ago

> A great time to remind your partner that these projects put the bread on the table. Also remind them how much money it is saving. My wife does all the ML and graph stuff off of her laptop and an external disk. After developing on her laptop, she just SSH’s into her cluster at work and schedule’s her job on whatever queue she needs. I, mainly doing web projects, have and keep a small homelab. Even in the article, they’re just doing it for the sake of saving time and not having to wait for the VM to load. Not really a requirement. Specially looking at the benchmarks at the end. That’s just the wrong argument.

bArray 6y ago
> After developing on her laptop, she just SSH’s into her > cluster at work and schedule’s her job on whatever queue > she needs. Then I would imagine your partner is understanding. I would imagine most situations would be where one partner is computing orientated and the non-computing partner might not understand why there is this massive electric munching air breathing rack in their house. > That’s just the wrong argument. Clearly I was responding to the points in the parent comment, not specifically the article.
- rovr138 6y ago
  Not really. I mean, she's sympathetic to the fact that I want them, sure. But who really wants servers in a corner on the living room, cluttering and making noise. It's a hobby maintaining them, but I could easily turn off vm's, turn on other vm's with some wait time. It would be cool to have them and swap quickly, but I could still do without them. I tried buying a used 1u server and put it under the sofa so it wouldn't be seen, but the sound was insane. Quickly got turned off by me since it was just too much when watching tv. Now we have a house and have space to put them away but that wasn't true for a long time.