Re: Substitutes from bordeaux.guix.gnu.org

[Joshua Branson]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi!
>
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:
>
>> Christopher Baines 写道：
>>> Would trying to acquire a 2U rack mount server, and host it in a
>>> proper
>>> data centre be feasible? Because of both electricity usage and heat
>>> generation, it's going to be more difficult to host residentially I
>>> think.
>>
>> I thought Bayfront was hosted here[0], but we still pay €75 instead of
>> the €100 mentioned.  Perhaps Andreas has an understanding with them or
>> was grandfathered in?
>
> Yes, we could do the same.
>
> Does anyone have cheaper (or gratis? :-)) hosting options in mind?

Apologies if this is a silly/slighty off topic idea, but I thought I
would at least mention it...

I just bought a $250 refurbished Dell Optiplex 7020.  30 GB Ram. (Intel
says max Ram is 16GB...the RAM upgrader (crucial) says max ram is 30GB).
3 TB HDD.  4th generation Intel CPU.

I'm planning on having a simple server at home.  My ISP will let me run
my own server.  I'm not certain how good my internet connection will be,
but I would be interested in hosting a substitute server, though I would
guess that very quickly the cost of hosting it would get pretty
expensive...Just a thought.  A $250 desktop machine is fairly
inexpensive.  :)

Also, I just heard from Luke Leighton (from E0MA68 and the upcoming
libreGPU), that you could buy a raptor computer with 1TB of RAM for
about $40,000.  :)

>
> Ludo’.
>

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