4 ms·
The retro midi-tower server farm in DC1 wasn't exactly what I expected.
by polycaster 5y ago
The retro midi-tower server farm in DC1 wasn't exactly what I expected.
- dx034 5y agoMe neither but it makes sense. As long as a customer is willing to pay more than electricity+bandwidth cost, why should they throw them out? In their server auction you often find old servers at price points that are really attractive. For a database server, a 10yr old CPU with an old SSD and 250GB memory can be faster than a brand new server with a fraction of the memory. And they offer the former one for ~50€ in their server auction (at least they did yesterday). I'm really surprised though how many servers survive for that long. But they probably mix-and-match components whenever one part of a server fails.