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Not my experience but ymmv (and clearly has). > You can hardly find old used servers for less than 1000$ I picked up a second hand Dell PowerEdge 610 with 96G
by taneq 5y ago
Not my experience but ymmv (and clearly has).
> You can hardly find old used servers for less than 1000$
I picked up a second hand Dell PowerEdge 610 with 96GB of RAM for $400 AU, it's overkill by a large factor for what I need but damn. Either I was super lucky or servers aren't (weren't?) expensive.
> You can get that for less than 5$ a month
pocket change and host it
Until you actually use it and then it ramps up rapidly to the point where you'd be far better off just buying a server.
- tatersolid 5y agoGood luck getting spares, patched BIOS/firmware, patched DRAC, or anything else resembling support for that old Dell in a timely fashion. And good luck selling to enterprises when the vulnerability scanner lights up like a Christmas tree with critical and un-patchable flaws on your switches/routers/UPS/PDUs/storage arrays/servers/door locks/cooling system/fire suppression/cameras. Double for the DR site. Because you need all that stuff, and you have to maintain it all 24x7 which means lots of salaries.