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Yeah I think this likely where I'll end up going as well. What MiniPC did you end up working with? The thing I'm building/hosting can benefit from plenty of co
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
Yeah I think this likely where I'll end up going as well. What MiniPC did you end up working with?
The thing I'm building/hosting can benefit from plenty of cores, but for the start it's just prototype with a limited audience, so I don't need to go hardcore.
But I have a friend who has rackspace in a DC, and my thought was if I bought something in a rack form I could move it there and pay him to host it later. But I suspect it doesn't make a lot of sense, really.
- abound 3y agoI ended up with a Beelink GTR6, picked up used on eBay for $430. It's been great so far, but it's too early to vouch for it. You lose the nice IPMI/other server management features using consumer hardware, but that's part of the tradeoff. Rack stuff can be efficient (<100W idling), especially recent model year stuff, but it gets pricey quickly. You could spec a used 1U single socket Epyc Rome or Milan for under $2,000 if you're willing to shop around, but if you don't have other rackmount equipment, I'd stay away as it's such a price (and power) premium
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoThere's plenty of 10-yearish old PowerEdge servers around here for $500ish CAD full of SAS drives and high core count Xeons and a pile of memory. But yeah, power and noise. And I don't have ethernet running down to the basement yet, so not super enthused about having that share office space with me. The laptop I'm typing on is a Ryzen 6850H, so not too far off from the 6900 you're talking about and it has plenty of oomph. I might consider such a thing.