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The crazy part to me is using the cloud for testing. It’s crazy. I have a 5 year old dual CPU Xeon with 128GB of RAM and a couple NVME disks that I’ve spent a

The crazy part to me is using the cloud for testing. It’s crazy. I have a 5 year old dual CPU Xeon with 128GB of RAM and a couple NVME disks that I’ve spent about $1000 CAD total to build ($700 USD). Something in that range on Azure is about $1 / hour if you reserve a year. ~$9000 per year. All the people running workloads that don’t require the redundancy given, like CI, blow my mind. The costs are astronomical vs buying a cheap or used server. Sure, use the cloud for you production builds, but why not augment it with something that doesn’t cost as much?

walrus01 6y ago
as a totally randomly chosen example, that I spent not more than 20 seconds searching for, here's a system with 128GB of RAM for way under $500. https://www.ebay.com/itm/DELL-R910-16SFF-model-4x-Intel-X7550-2-0Ghz-8-Core-XEON-128GB-RAM-H700-Raid-4xPS/202478508602?hash=item2f24a8da3a:g:bUMAAOSwseZbzjgS https://www.ebay.com/itm/DELL-R910-16SFF-model-4x-Intel-X755... need to add your own storage (good quality SSDs, of course). and it assumes you have somewhere to put noisy things... I would estimate it's about a 500W electrical load, so figure $40-50 additional electrical bill, if you're trying to precisely account for all costs. you can totally set up a desktop workstation dual xeon for a similar price as well.