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Renting parts of a homelab sounds just as strange as renting out the extra space in your family’s refrigerator, at least at first. But thinking about it more..
by photonthug 1y ago
Renting parts of a homelab sounds just as strange as renting out the extra space in your family’s refrigerator, at least at first. But thinking about it more.. internet speed/cost in much of America is insane compared to Europe, and depending on what you’re trying to do with the bandwidth it’s not like you can actually address that with cloud, where the free tier is almost useless but above the free tier it’s hard to do much without quickly getting into significant expense.
There’s collocation for mid tier usage patterns that’s cost effective maybe but I imagine it’s on the decline in general these days, and it never seemed that cost effective for hobby stuff unless you had a group of people who were splitting it.
- radlad 1y ago> internet speed/cost in much of America is insane compared to Europe Can you expand on this? I'm in the US and have 1 Gbps symmetrical fiber for $70/month. The US is a big country and some people will have it very slow, but usually not the same type of people who self-host.
- BrandoElFollito 1y agoI have 8/2.5 Gbps for slightly less than half of this price. This is a typical offer in fiber now in France. Not that it matters because my equipment is 1 Gbps but at least I can flex :)
- radlad 1y agoIs this typical in Europe? If so, that sounds great. Years ago I heard from British friends that it was more expensive and slower. Like the United States, Europe is a big place!