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How many servers do you have - How much you spend per year ?
Hello,
In anticipation of black friday.
I made a small summary of the servers I wanted to keep or replace.
And also calculated projected costs for the year.
I rent 8 services. 7 servers (including 4 for VPN) and 1 other storage service.
For a cost of 260$ / year 
That's 2 times less than last year.
What about you ? Have you calculated ?
This could be a good thing to avoid compulsive shopping during black friday 
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To much. There are folks with 300+ idlers. Broigus has even more. Zagato also has insane number. They all have issues. My-self included.
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VPS: 2 (2vCores, 8GB RAM, 25GB SSD and 4 Cores, 8GB RAM, 60GB SSD)
Dedicated Server: 1
Spending per year: 0$/yr (lifetime vps; free dedi)
Amount in $ ?
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i have no clue, I'm worried
Don’t ask. At that point no one really calculates…
That's true lowend spirit !
But you'd still have to include the purchase price of the lifetime vps. Divided by the nb of years you use it !
(Zap hosting?)
Above a certain amount, I just feel like I'm throwing money out the window.
#lowperformanceidlermindsetlowendcloudflarecompetitor
Are you using your servers/vps for private or business purposes?
Some private, most "business" if you may call that to open source project stuff
I'm also probably adding all of them as globalping.io probes. Need to get my account fixed.
According to my-idlers, I have 46 servers and spend roughly $1.500 per year.
It's not totally accurate since I haven't updated it in a while, but it's probably not to far off.
That's a lot.
How many of these servers are idle?
I have more than a dozen now, after next week it will probably rise some more. But that's mainly because I'm new to lowend hosts, I'm shopping around, checking what's reliable and keeps decent performance after the deals fill the node, and finally finding better offers than I had before. In the end I don't want to have more than 10. Couple cheap yearly deals for general private use, perhaps one for experimenting with trying other OS, couple beefier but still affordable services to run actual public facing hobby project, one or two flash deal dedicated servers for maximum freedom of loading (or not) the system how I need, couple backup storage services. Ideally less than $50 per month for the next year.
Yeah, ZAP. Probably about 200€ for both vps. Have them already for over a year now. Pretty cool to still have resources for hobby projects, but not having to worry about recurring bills when idling.
200€ for 12 months would be like 16€/mo.
200€ for 24 months would be 8€/mo
200€ for 36 months would be 5€/mo
.... It gets chepaer by the year.
Even 16€/mo for two vps isn't that bad if you're not used to LE pricing.
$6,790/ yearly
And $2176. Yearly.
Software license. Such as directadmin litespeed, cloudlinux,jet backup etc
It depends on your definition of idle.
I actually don't think any of them have absolutely nothing to do, but the average load is probably extremely low. Some of them are just for monitoring, some of them are 1 of 10 authorative dns servers for some low traffic zones, some are just nodes in my vpn mesh etc. I confess that I have actually bought vps's just because there was kind of a blind spot in a certain part of the world map in my Grafana, so those nodes sends a ping every 2 minutes and that's about it. Not that I in any way, shape or form needed that part of the world, it just looks better on the map if there is somewhat even space between the dots.
So, while 30 of them probably have load avg below 0.1, they still do something...sometimes.
For Hobby ? I guess it's for work
Between netcup, bero-host, hostup and speedypage
10 VPS and around $70 a month
I created wg-mesh a while back, so I can have my own wireguard mesh network using bird with OSPF.
Problem is, I got only around 256 IP's per Node, which I was slowly hitting since the network was growing and growing.
I ended up adding BGP support with semi automatic peering sessions, to split the network into multiple ones.
Questions?
Make that 48, some early BF offers showed up...
F*ck I'm weak.
You use rock solid hosts
I like so much netcup & bero-host
I'm feeling very reasonable after all when I see what you spend !
It doesn't tell us how many servers and how much money were needed for this project.
But too much, that's for sure.
Yes to much, going towards 100, but split entirely around the globus.
The highest amount per ISP is maybe 3 or 4, usually 1-2.
Did you get better latencies than with your ISP? I imagine the goal was to optimize the routes?
Bero 995x for Wordpress , Speedypage for Wordpress
Rest of them are mostly for small client projects which generate just over $600 in profit. Which goes in crypto straightaway 😂
Yes.
150ms to Hong Kong.
155ms to Japan.
160ms to Singapore.
149ms to Seattle
122ms to Miami
202ms to Sao Paulo, if I ever get my hands on Ellalink then it would be around 120ms.
Total: $253.33 and €48 every year.
We have three general-use hostnames available at the moment.
However, we need to downsize on servers to make up the RIPE tax.