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OPEN THIS THREAD --> NEW YEAR w/ NEW DEALS by RackNerd + GIVEAWAYS
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RACKNERDGANG
This popped into my head immediately.
feels like shitposting now xD
Gotta bring the crowd somehow! Haha
hm, maybe let's have a chitchat?
what do you use your RackNerd services for?
Currently, NextCloud, PrivateBin, Libreddit, some misc other things for friends like that, and the rest is webhosting, and a whole lot of testing. Reliable VPSs that I can just test random shit on the fly in any part of the country (I'm in the US) is pretty useful and kinda fun. They're always changing, sometimes I wonder if anyone ever sees the logs on any and goes "why the hell does this guy reinstall the OS 4 times a day?"
On some of the ones I use for testing I'll just do whatever, sometimes break a system on purpose so I can teach myself how to fix it, worst case, reload again.
not bad, tho i have a questionable VMWare Workstation Pro License, i keep few ready linux images to test stuff, i can abuse CPU/MEM/INTERNET without consequences haha
I currently host a buuunch of Discord Bots, VSCODE in a browser, nginx rtsp server (when i wanna stream on YT and Twitch, i use my server, it records the video and restreams saving me BW)
also probably the most important is my API to keep track of data across projects/Languages/servers
I'm using their VPSes for mostly idling, if I'm being honest. I have a lot of test projects here and there, and at least one production website on their web hosting services.
hah, yeah gotta make use of these NOP instructions xd
i kinda wanna see RISC-V in the next 5 years...
I too have a cough license. I definitely utilize my home rigs for certain things, but I have 200mbit down (great, plenty for me really) and 10mbit up (what the fffffff?! lol) so the gigabit both ways on the servers is nice for just doing things in a much faster way.
I also like hosting things on them that track metrics or other data as I don't have to worry about them going down and can reboot my home server without interrupting it, at the same time its data that if I lose, oh well. So its a win win for me.
I also try to factor in electricity cost, as I have to pay utilities in a part of the US where it can range from -50F to +110F haha, sometimes the servers/VPSs pay for themselves in that aspect too.
Not gonna lie, I do have a fleet idling right now, but I have plans to use them this year.
Hopefully I follow through with them asap. If not, or until then, I have been known to let friends use them as long as they agree to not voilate any TOS or anything to get me in trouble or disrupt the network.
im currently making a "NAS-ish" from parts I got from friends (some broken), some are tight(450W psu) some are good (gtx 780)
so far had to pay 40€ for paste + case, gotta pay 59$ for unraid license and in upcomming years like a lot for hopefully 5x4tb HDD to put in it to use the dam thing...
someone send me like 6x 12TB lol could keep all my RAW footage 👀
for what I don't need huge processing power (unless we talk locally to render/edit videos)
new year resolution? i see i see
Eh, I use a lower wattage PSU on my home server and even with a bunch of old spinning HDDs I have no issue, but I make sure to space devices between power rails and am not currently running a graphics card. Also I'll take a lower wattage rebuilt with high end components vs an off the shelf PSU with who knows what in it.
I've seen even good PSUs destroy an entire computer with a catastrophic failure. Quite impressive, and sad, when it takes out every single component.
I probably put too much faith in high end capacitors to protect me from cheap part failure like a rectifier short or mosfet going full derp, but so far it has saved me.
I do this with audio amplifiers too and actually had one where a transistor failed (trying to ask the amp to put out north of 1000w in the 20 below weather that morning was a bad idea) taking out an entire chain of components, turning it into a 120v inverter which made the speakers connected to it go THUMP one last time as the coils welded solid lmao. 120v at the speaker output.
Same amp with upgraded Nichicon caps failed in the same way years later (I missed something in the rebuild) and spared the speakers completely. Hence my bias lol
TL;DR I'll take a 300W Delta PSU with a rebuild over a "700W" Rosewill and factory parts lol
yupp seen too, whole mobo, cpu, ram fried like a chicken
PC wattage calculator says with 6 harddrives i expect arround 500-550W
my psu is 450W burst 600W, but i dont feel like spending 50€ on something i don't need for now, later i might, might not
the gpu i'll use to let people play on it, hey, now they don't have excuse with "my pc can't run the game"
I got on a tangent in my last post lol
I just picked up a Core 2 Duo desktop with GeForce 8500 for free, just needs some DDR2 RAM, still figuring out what to do with it. I love a budget NAS, or maybe a KODI (XBMC) box, but I've got Raspberry Pi's for those now so again, power issues dangit.
I do have a buddy who has electric included who said I could host a few servers there, so maybe it'll end up there. I miss when I didn't have to pay for electric.
6x12TB would be amazing. I'm a data hoarder and always lacking in storage.
Oh man, I remember the first time I actually witnessed a cheap PSU toast an expensive build. I didn't know if I should laugh or cry. So many expensive components but the cheapest PSU ever. They had the money to afford it too so I don't feel bad for them, just the computer.
I like your attitude with the GPU, I've got a buddy who has a 970M equipped laptop and thinks its useless, like dude no, it will still outperform last gen consoles and play so many games.
Poor thing just sits.
Yeah, I don't do resolutions per se, but I have a plan for 2022 that started sometime in mid to late 2021. I intend to learn the web-hosting and possibly VPS/server providing business far more in-depth and make some money. I used to do mostly house calls for tech repair but 2020 put a bit of a dent in that and I'm just trying to adapt.
That's awfully kind of you to share with your friends. I've acquired more than I know what to do with at the moment. I have some plans, but I need to get them in motion.
Its a "here I have this extra go ahead and mess around until I need it" scenario, generally they're just learning something or don't want to mess up a home computer. I find that if they like what they're doing/learning they'll get a server of their own pretty quick. I like teaching people things, and if I can give them the tools to learn for free then there is a much bigger chance of them catching the "geek bug" lol. Money is a barrier to knowledge for some and that bothers me.
some of my friends have hardware they don't want todo anything with it... what a shame...
well, I take apart most of my things, i seen poor HV isolation slots, NO FUCKING earth on chassis and other bad things... usually, whatever i can call "safety" i don't save a cent unless i don't mind it blowing up that much
Its one thing when they don't want anything to do with it, but are willing to either sell or give it to someone (instead of just chucking it in the bin), its a whole other thing when they just sit on it. Like yeah, I sit on older tech (1990's gear and whatnot) because I collect it, but I have friends who will sit on it (gear that's a few years old) because they paid a lot of money for it but blatantly tell me they will never use it again or sell it. Like people with an old muscle car on the front yard, "I'm gonna fix it up someday" but even worse "I'm never going to use it but I'm never going to let anyone else use it either" lol
yeah, i think this is as bad a throwing it away...
same with "take if it's free"
That's why when I let people borrow things like that, if enough time has passed and I realize that I really haven't missed it but they're using it daily, I just let them have it. I obviously don't need it in that case.
racknerd-never-sleeps
I think I have some DDR2 1GB sticks that I'll never use, how many do you need? Assuming shipping is not prohibitive I'll donate them to the cause.
yeah if you find some 12TB harddrives you don't use also DM me
Good morning guys.. Seems some interesting conversation going on... 😎
not really, kinda dead, i'm trying to get a chitchat going before sleep but ehhhhh rip