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is it worth buying a dedicated one and renting it?
My company has to sell an intel server with 128GB of ram, 40 logical cores, I was thinking of buying it myself and renting it monthly to someone. I have a dedicated room in Italy where I can put the rack and the ups. I have a static ip with a 200Mbps unmetered connection
while for ddos protection I could include a server that acts as a shield for free
I was thinking of renting the entire dedicated for $130/$150 a month, what do you think? could there be a market or is there a risk of throwing away money to buy the server?
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entire server no good , hard to sell , but more cheap VPS it's a good deal
this is the start of something beautiful
in all seriousness, no, don't do it
Thank you for your reply, but I admit that renting several vps requires a lot of work regarding configurations, renewals and assistance for many people. Renting the whole dedicated would require much less time and I could provide excellent assistance to that person
For what? As a hobby? To make money?
Either way you are wasting liquidity and time doing something like that. It is really only worth it if you do it on a big scale.
what
you want to buy it from your company and resell it? just 1?
Thank you for your response. However, managing multiple VPS rentals involves significant work in terms of configuration, renewals, and support for numerous users. Opting for a dedicated server would streamline the process, saving time and enabling me to offer superior support to that individual> @Stradale said:
I saw an opportunity and I would like to take it. I already have a job so I have no interest in doing it on a large scale, I would like to try this experience and see how it goes
If you have one IP for this entire space you will probably have to do NAT, not to mention the fact that this is a home and you probably wouldn't have redundant internet connection etc, so it wouldn't really work as a server to rent, maybe for your own personal use
Wow. There is growth of basement hosts, especially IT.
Wonder where that's going to lead us to.
I'd say, get server setup, pay the provider fees at LET, offer unsustainable deals and profit like there is never an end.
Learn from previous IT hosters from RO and IT and see how they managed to get around all critics and make promises that you probably cannot hold on to. Claim there is a delay from the couriers for parts, electricity power issues oh and don't forget AI.
Good luck and wish you the best!
You're right, the connection could be a problem, as an alternative if it drops for any reason I could make an automatic emergency connection to a satellite network until the connection returns
I think that as a server it could be useful for those who need a lot of RAM or do heavy processing. Alternatively, it could be useful for those who need to host a minecraft network or similar.
Honestly, I don't need that much power for personal use.
youd have to sell it at a competitive rate for it to make any sense
Mama Mia here we go again
I totally agree and if it were up to me I would even rent it for €10 a month, but I calculated that it would cost around €65 a month just for electricity and €35 a month for the dedicated connection, so I would spend €100 just to keep it on 😂 maybe if I share the connection I can keep the cost down
this is why people dont do this
Probably yes haha I think the best thing would be to put it at €100/month making a few compromises, I saw that hosting with the same resources cost €200/250 per month, I think that at €100/month it could be competitive. Especially considering that I can provide an unlimited connection, hard disk or SSD of your choice, assistance, be accommodating with requests and have fewer restrictions than a standard hosting company
perhaps post the full system spec and let us judge
an unlimited 200Mbps port isnt exactly wow
No. Because the only likely way to make any profit is to bundle, slice, upgrade or create a product (VPS etc.)...
It will depreciate from day one and you may end up losing more than your initial investment 'trying' to turn a profit.
Minecraft servers usually needs a mainstream cpu to run well because of the better per core performance, it sounds like you got a server cpu.
Falling back to another network like that is not really a solution, unless you are looking for very specific customer base with extremely low expectations (even more than the normal in LET). The reason for that is that the IP address will be changing
I think if you colo the server you might make some profit, although in either case it will probably not be worth your time
If you don't have specific goals, then don't.
The market is competitive. Time is valuable.
Post full specs if its some ancient v2-4 i see literally 0 reason to do this
Better do this:
Live long and happy life.
You're absolutely right, in my haste to respond I didn't think about it
I honestly don't have the time or desire to colonize it, it was more of a "hey, there's an opportunity, I'll buy it and rent it to some guy and move on with my life" thing ahah
haha I could buy it for €300, I tried to put a sales ad out of curiosity a few days ago but almost no one clicked on it, gaming PCs are in high demand but servers aren't
Have you considered listing it here? There are some hardware sales every now and then but they are rare. Although I know there are rules, service transfer requests seem to be tolerated with money exchanged.
I admit I didn't know there was a sales section, I could think about it
although I admit I was amused by the idea of trying to rent it and try this experiment
then, also to answer your other answer, I had no intention of doing anything as demanding as dividing it into vps and keeping up with so many people