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What teenager has €400/year to spent on virtual servers?

• chpatrick 3y ago
  One who can afford to buy the one in the article.
  • misnome 3y ago
    Based on what? They bought a cheap used server off of eBay? That doesn’t disappear if you stop paying a monthly fee?
    • chpatrick 3y ago
      > In May 2022, I finalized the crazy decision to get a real rack-mounted server - I got a great deal on used drives (3x3TB), RAM (128GB of DDR3), and relatively powerful (read: power-hungry) CPUs (2xE5-2690) in a Dell PowerEdge R720XD, which I paid for with some bug bounty money I saved up. Plus electricity/internet costs, replacing broken drives, etc etc. You can get a lot of rental time out of that.
• midasuni 3y ago
  One that has €400 a year or more to spend on powering a 120W server 24/7
  • Symbiote 3y ago
    Parents pay for that, perhaps without realising.
  • lmm 3y ago
    Assuming it really was drawing 120W, that's about 1000kWh for the year, so €300 at this year's unusually high prices, €150 in a more typical year, and probably half of that will be offset by reduced heating costs.