I counted and I have 31 servers

cainyxues

@cyanogenic said:
I'm a big fan of the low end servers and VPSes but why on earth are you lot collecting so many just to idle??? Is this an addiction thing or am I missing something - does it unlock a life level if you buy and idle X servers?

just wait until black friday

Alilang

that is a lot of servers, pretty cool.

vastness4594

@Alilang said: that is a lot of servers, pretty cool.

Cool dashboard and theme you got there

sdworlld

Hey everyone,

I keep seeing people talk about running so many servers, and sometimes they even call it a “chicken farm.” I’m a bit confused — what do you actually do with that many servers? And what does “chicken farm” mean in this context? Could someone explain it in simple terms?

rishabh2021uw

i have 3, and one self hosted server

igctt

@sdworlld said:
Hey everyone,

I keep seeing people talk about running so many servers, and sometimes they even call it a “chicken farm.” I’m a bit confused — what do you actually do with that many servers? And what does “chicken farm” mean in this context? Could someone explain it in simple terms?

in china, vps or machine has the same sound as chicken, so chicken is used as a jargon referring to vps in many forums, and it spreads across the world because many chinese have the needs to buy vps to bypass gfw.
then chicken farm is created referring to many vps .

384_cz

@igctt said:

@sdworlld said:
Hey everyone,

I keep seeing people talk about running so many servers, and sometimes they even call it a “chicken farm.” I’m a bit confused — what do you actually do with that many servers? And what does “chicken farm” mean in this context? Could someone explain it in simple terms?

in china, vps or machine has the same sound as chicken, so chicken is used as a jargon referring to vps in many forums, and it spreads across the world because many chinese have the needs to buy vps to bypass gfw.
then chicken farm is created referring to many vps .

Thank you so much for explanation!

sh97

@igctt said:

@sdworlld said:
Hey everyone,

I keep seeing people talk about running so many servers, and sometimes they even call it a “chicken farm.” I’m a bit confused — what do you actually do with that many servers? And what does “chicken farm” mean in this context? Could someone explain it in simple terms?

in china, vps or machine has the same sound as chicken, so chicken is used as a jargon referring to vps in many forums, and it spreads across the world because many chinese have the needs to buy vps to bypass gfw.
then chicken farm is created referring to many vps .

binding

igctt

another item: mjj, j is the initial sound of vps / machine / chicken in mandarin, m is the initial sounds of buy, at first it refers to buy vps, as an behavior, then it becomes a jargon or humor to say a kind of person who likes to buy vps. After many chinese wanna get the most bargain vps from all over the world, it makes many providers hating them. then mjj becomes negative.

igctt

@sh97 said:

@igctt said:

@sdworlld said:
Hey everyone,

I keep seeing people talk about running so many servers, and sometimes they even call it a “chicken farm.” I’m a bit confused — what do you actually do with that many servers? And what does “chicken farm” mean in this context? Could someone explain it in simple terms?

in china, vps or machine has the same sound as chicken, so chicken is used as a jargon referring to vps in many forums, and it spreads across the world because many chinese have the needs to buy vps to bypass gfw.
then chicken farm is created referring to many vps .

binding

yeah , from nodeseek

igctt

i only have 6 servers for bypassing gfw.
two of them are free and get from here, microlxc and fossvps
an oracle free trier is still working after 5 years.
aws lightsail, it has the highest sla, and it’s pretty good for most of chinese users if you select nodes in asia.
dedirock for personal mail service .
scaleway stardust for hosting a monitoring program, it’s less than 0.5 euro per month, here is the tutorial
I also use komari as the monitor, but i enable the private site option so it’s unassailable publicly.

384_cz

@igctt said:
i only have 6 servers for bypassing gfw.
two of them are free and get from here, microlxc and fossvps
an oracle free trier is still working after 5 years.
aws lightsail, it has the highest sla, and it’s pretty good for most of chinese users if you select nodes in asia.
dedirock for personal mail service .
scaleway stardust for hosting a monitoring program, it’s less than 0.5 euro per month, here is the tutorial
I also use komari as the monitor, but i enable the private site option so it’s unassailable publicly.

Btw, komáři are mosquitoes in Czech and also a slang word for communists

jessi

only if I had all the money in the world , I would have been a happy vps hoarder

nadiar429

First I have zillion dollar idea

Then I buy LET server

Then I buy LET domain

But, the coding never finish..

So then I have another idea,

Then I buy another LET server

Then another domain,

Then I need another server to monitor another idle servers

Then I forgot about the idea,

Every time until backfriday end

igctt

@384_cz said:

@igctt said:
i only have 6 servers for bypassing gfw.
two of them are free and get from here, microlxc and fossvps
an oracle free trier is still working after 5 years.
aws lightsail, it has the highest sla, and it’s pretty good for most of chinese users if you select nodes in asia.
dedirock for personal mail service .
scaleway stardust for hosting a monitoring program, it’s less than 0.5 euro per month, here is the tutorial
I also use komari as the monitor, but i enable the private site option so it’s unassailable publicly.

Btw, komáři are mosquitoes in Czech and also a slang word for communists

ah, no wander communism is fall of tide.
but this opensource monitoring program is good tho

topgamer

I had two, now one only

indiankesh

Rookie numbers

woinokiz

Still 31 🥹

sdworlld

@igctt said:

@sdworlld said:
Hey everyone,

I keep seeing people talk about running so many servers, and sometimes they even call it a “chicken farm.” I’m a bit confused — what do you actually do with that many servers? And what does “chicken farm” mean in this context? Could someone explain it in simple terms?

in china, vps or machine has the same sound as chicken, so chicken is used as a jargon referring to vps in many forums, and it spreads across the world because many chinese have the needs to buy vps to bypass gfw.
then chicken farm is created referring to many vps .

Thank You So much you did really make me understand the chicken farm

sayem314

lost count but around 200

askme

What a coincidence, you can change one every day for a month!

tall_ice

@igctt said:
another item: mjj, j is the initial sound of vps / machine / chicken in mandarin, m is the initial sounds of buy, at first it refers to buy vps, as an behavior, then it becomes a jargon or humor to say a kind of person who likes to buy vps. After many chinese wanna get the most bargain vps from all over the world, it makes many providers hating them. then mjj becomes negative.

I always thought it was because they are so desperate they are willing to sell their "jj"

Because buy and sell are both m sounds

This is completely my interpretation and I don't read chinese

igctt

@tall_ice said:

@igctt said:
another item: mjj, j is the initial sound of vps / machine / chicken in mandarin, m is the initial sounds of buy, at first it refers to buy vps, as an behavior, then it becomes a jargon or humor to say a kind of person who likes to buy vps. After many chinese wanna get the most bargain vps from all over the world, it makes many providers hating them. then mjj becomes negative.

I always thought it was because they are so desperate they are willing to sell their "jj"

Because buy and sell are both m sounds
This is completely my interpretation and I don't read chinese

it looks like you understand some Mandarin. yes they are all with initial m sound.
In this point, there are many interpretations, buy / sell / has no / touch + jj, they all make sense with m initial sound. sorry for saying something mandarin.