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This is corny, but thanks for being awesome! It feels so nice to see this community grow out of a shared vision of what the internet should be.

Standing up my little instance has been a blast! I'm not quite done with it, but your combined enthusiasm gives me hope for the future of the internet. 😊

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Unfortunately no old cloud servers or switches on ebay. As such availability of used hardware is more limited in future.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

you dont even need big old iron. I run all my containers etc on old business sff pcs and storage on synology. works great

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I'm weird, so I have 10G/40G networking and half a rack that would burn 10 kW when all fired up. My major cost issue is power, which is currently 0.7 EUR/kWh though capped at 0.4 EUR/kWh for a while. I could use some more modern hardware but it's no longer bountiful and cheap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@eleitl that's so expensive. Where do you live?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's Germany. Regular rates are some 0.3 EUR/kWh at the moment, I hope to be there by May next year. Meanwhile, I currently make some half of my net power with photovoltaics. It helps to keep the costs down.

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