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You could buy 4-6 machines like that per year at that price. Gives you a taste of cloud mark-up. Bandwidth markup is far more insane.
by api 3y ago
You could buy 4-6 machines like that per year at that price. Gives you a taste of cloud mark-up. Bandwidth markup is far more insane.
- eyegor 3y agoFor $1000 you could basically build one today. 5950x (16c cpu) is $400, 128gb kit of ddr4 is $250-300, maybe enough budget left for mobo, ssd, psu, case, cooler if you bought used bits (may also need cheapest gpu on Craigslist depending on your needs). All new ~$1200. Aws/gcp prices are nuts compared to on prem, although hetzner and co would be much cheaper.
- omgwtfbyobbq 3y agoYeah, Cloud is definitely a money maker. If someone has a microcenter nearby, they could build an 8 core ddr4 system with 128gb of ram for maybe $800. $3200+ could build a 64 core/128gb ddr5 rig. https://www.newegg.com/tyan-s8050gm2ne-9534-amd-epyc-9534-2-45ghz-installed/p/N82E16813151352 https://www.newegg.com/tyan-s8050gm2ne-9534-amd-epyc-9534-2-...
- RecycledEle 3y agoPrice a HP z440 with those specs on eBay or Amazon.
- mkatx 3y agoYep, I built gaming PCs for years, and I have a few laying around.. Add some ram and they a great servers (without memory safety though).
- api 3y agoWithout memory safety? Do you mean ECC? Non-ECC issues are statistically rare. You might never see them if you aren’t running a lot of systems at heavy load at scale.
- mkatx 3y agoYeah, ecc. I do have a lot of data intensive services running. But my systems are mostly amd, and I'm pretty sure my amd CPUs can actually use ecc memory, so I'll probably upgrade some day.
- api 3y agoI've run non-ECC systems at heavy load for uptimes in excess of a year and not had issues. It really is statistically rare... but of course common enough that if you run whole data centers you will see it.