What's with the overkill hardware setups?

[ss2k_2003@lemmy.world]

I just have a dell optiplex sitting in the corner running Proxmox. then I can spin up whatever I need.

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

it's the reason people post pictures of their cyber truck which can't move when it snows while their neighbor's ford has been plowing out neighbors since '97.

[surp@lemmy.world]

I mean you aren't going to host 100tb of porn in that laptop.....yet

[muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee]

I have 2 old dell prebuilt boxes of shit things stacked on top of eachother. I do need some recommendations for storage as I currently just have everything on a single ssd.

[frostycaveman@lemm.ee]

I have an overkill hardware setup because it’s fun. No I don’t really need 4 servers in a Proxmox cluster with 64GB RAM each.. but it’s cool lol. Besides the hardware was just gonna become ewaste anyway, I’m repurposing it

[lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I just upgraded my daily driver laptop to a new desktop, so now I'm using the laptop as a home server. Much more powerful than anything else I could afford.

[bruhduh@lemmy.world]

I have setup like that because i do a lot of repairs and I've yet to acquire minipc for server purposes, plan to buy n100 fanless one, for now i have rented vps for 2 years for selfhosting purposes

[periodicallypedantic@lemmy.ca]

I wonder how easy it is to get used server racks, and how cheap they are

[echolynx@lemmy.zip]

How did you get multiple 64 GB RAM sticks that would've been ewaste?

[flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works]

I reckon the electricity is the real killer (and the noise!)

[donttreadonbigfoot@lemmy.world]

[gibson@sopuli.xyz]

Definitely the noise. Jesus Christ the noise...

[littlewonder@lemmy.world]

I want to hear from them because that's the setup I'm aiming for.

Where are you all discussing your shit so I can eavesdrop and steal ansible playbooks?

[littlewonder@lemmy.world]

Playing Doom.

[threeme2189@sh.itjust.works]

As it's obsolete server hardware, I'm guessing each one has a bunch of low capacity ram sticks in it. And they're probably not the regular consumer grade stuff, but some other spec.

[stefenauris@pawb.social]

Sometimes it's fun to go nuts!

[utopiah@lemmy.world]

Wow look at Mr FancyPants over there, your server has a screen, I just got something (RPi) the size of a matchbox! /s

[gofsckyourself@lemmy.world]

An experiment because someone once thought "you know what would be better than two oscilloscopes?"

[amon@lemmy.world]

Don't even have 256G installed in that thing

[amon@lemmy.world]

I never received the battery