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Written by Snow on 2025-01-13 at 17:35

I should just go back to paying a server provider to host my stuff. Thought I would be saving money but omg power and failing hardware is expensive

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Written by Anthropy :verified_dragon: on 2025-01-13 at 17:39

@snow i mean if you buy dell enterprise hardware with enterprise parts sure, nothing really wrong with running a webserver on a second hand NUC or one of those small office PCs. Though while you're using enterprise hardware you could consider buying ECC dimms second hand, they'll let you know when they're broken anyway, only issue is dell might reject the parts because dell is like the apple of enterprise servers @@ would have to look up to make sure the parts work for your machine

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Written by Snow on 2025-01-13 at 17:44

@anthropy I have a dell R620. DIM A1 failed and DIM B4 is failing. Power was already 120 but after using the server it jumped to 190. I don't get how running a server can raise the power bill by 70 bucks. At this rate I should just rent a server I'll get like 4 times the storage and better CPU than what I already have and it would be cheaper because I won't have to pay for hardware replacements

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Written by Anthropy :verified_dragon: on 2025-01-13 at 17:51

@snow oh yea, I mean power kinda depends but yea it isn't cheap for bigger servers, running e.g 500w for 24h is 12kwh, times 30 is almost half a megawatt-hour a month, which can definitely be pricey. That's another reason an enterprise server is kind of not practical at home, whereas if you'd e.g use a NUC, you'd be closer to like 10-50w at most, which is 10-50x cheaper. (1-7$ a month), with those enterprise servers usually the fans alone already use 10-30w each ^^;

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Written by Snow on 2025-01-13 at 17:55

@anthropy That's the thing though I have a lot of stuff running so it's hard for me to get a tiny little computer that cannot have a decent ram upgrades

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Written by Anthropy :verified_dragon: on 2025-01-13 at 17:59

@snow I mean a reasonably modern (or honestly even older) NUC will happily take 64gb+ RAM, you just need to find some 32GB SODIMMs but that's not super expensive especially comparing to ECC enterprise dell RAM, my laptop has 64gb too and iirc it cost like 150€ at the time.

Or you get those office small formfactor PCs, those usually take 2 normal DDR4 sticks and that's even cheaper

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