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Electricity cost
Uptime / Stability / DDOS attacks.
Personally not worth it especially when living in a country where I pay 0.40euro / kw
What is the price on your area? per unit?
@Calin does
Atom and SBC
I don't think there is any benefit from doing it from home. There are many datacenters where power and colocation are very cheap.
If you are looking to run some servers at home as a home project/hobby, then go for it. It can be much fun, and you can learn a lot from it. But for production, I would really not do it.
C1V. Well, it's from a garage, but basically the same. Challenges? Mom putting in the vacuum and causing a circuit breaker to trip is definitely one.
Anyway, for any serious application: don't host from home. Backup and some other stuff can be fine though as long as you know what you're doing. However, costwise and regarding headaches a descent datacenter is preferred.
A Mini PC called Beelink Ryzen 9 with DDR5 ram.
Power usage is
Idle: 8-11W
Under Load: Sustains 93-96W
Not selling, but these machines are good =D
I use only a web server on it, so I just use cloudflare tunnel service with it since it's free.
If you want game server or something other than web ports, I don't think cloudflare tunnel works for free. So you might run into those ddos problems and etc...
I have a data room in my concrete block out building. it's a metal framed cube inside the building on top of dricore, heavily insulated with xps foam panels (also acts as a moisture barrier) then fiberglass, and is a drywalled finished room on the inside and is a big sheathed box on the outside with a steel door into it. heating and cooling using very efficient gree saphire mini splits. 100a of power capacity run to it and then fiber going into it. this is where all of my own stuff exists. I built it myself over the course of 6 months or so in my spare time. the room is sealed so well you can't slam the door shut due to air pressure.
I don't sell any services. this is pure idiocy. I was just given an older CNG onan generator that I'll be rebuilding and adding a panel for. currently I only have UPS(s). I'd 100% consider letting someone pay me to put backup systems in there but I really just have my own bank account wrecking hobbies.
Actually, I am thinking of investing some money but I think rather I should use them for buy hardware and put them into a good datacenter.
so I think it's better to host servers in a data center.
Man your description is awesome 😂
But in india its hard to fine these machines.
I am building a small pc with i3 12th gen with DDR5
Anything may possibly you could encounter on datacenter but with handicap +20% sanity.
Even that, Its great experience and open any possibilites to ~idling~ learn something you could.
I still happy with my Athlon 3000G server to store some "Linux ISO(s)", expose some service and development space.
Its weird magnet hobby for sure, so consider carefully before do it.
Isn't this called homelab???
If you got some money that you want to invest, the best option is to check what location suits you best & then find hardware vendors close to that location, saves you in shipping (a lot). If you want to invest in hardware to rent out, don't do it at home, even when electricity is cheap, as you said you live in an Indian village, it's not reliable & your clients will hate you for it.
Yes. But it sounds more interesting. Just like "server" sounds more interesting as "mini-tower casing with single power supply and customer mainboard".
Thanks for the suggestion
❤️
Yeah but sometimes people sell home servers too.
Hmm, its better to buy hardwares and host them in datacenter, its cheaper and reliable.
true 😂😂😂
Electricity is cheap here but its not reliable but I can deploy solar, but there is some more issues like internet cost and its reliability.
Brother, just plan what you need in hosting, then buy from a decent provider for like $20/year better than you sell something in this industry in your situatio at this moment.
I would like to see some photos if you can without doxxing yourself
Sounds fucking fun. Thanks for putting the idea in my head now
I do have 2 home servers, literally in a basement. Nothing fancy nor crazy, and I don't sell anything from those, just your standard home lab type thing. But I have H/A setup, so if one fails, it all goes to the other one.
Electricity is expensive here, and that's one of the main points of not being totally worth it, but for me, it's better to run heavy apps and stuff on my home servers than hosting it with any provider, that's why I only have small boxes. My stuff uses a bunch of bandwidth and not all providers give that for cheap, but considering you're already paying your ISP, bandwidth is kinda free.
If electricity is cheap, and you can get a few VMs to reverse proxy from it, I don't see it as a terrible option for something casual. ofc don't host a $10.000 USD business from home lol
I agree, I also utilize this from my ISP for similar reason.
I am doing my tests on putting solar power into powering the server + the main router then could be something to build on.
Electricity is expensive through the roof. It just ain't worth it. Those days are long gone.
If you live where there is no cold and dark winter and utilizing solar power - than yes, it is absolutely reasonable to spin some dell or hp units. Basically - if you get cheap power, spin servers, if not than rent.
Allegedly moved to a DC. That leaves us with @FlorinMarian OG BaseEnd provider with solar panels, guard dogs and Jesus.
the important part is the normal bandwidth you are using is different from bandwidth the datacenter using. of course you can get the same lane, but the price is much higher than datacenters, because of the low volume you order.
maybe you can find low electricity price and low rent place, but you can not find low price enterprise bandwidth. normal ISP bandwidth = lot of down time and other problem.
for personal use would be suggested, but for selling or renting to other would not.