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Any Deals?
Good old days, when I used to push 0.2PB per month.
I shall return to this number and beat it.
2x vps frontend with a tunnel back to home for storage & compute works for me, for now.
About 20 +-5 seems to be about right for me. Incl. 1 (desired 2) dedi(s), a few high quality VDS, a bunch of good VPS (preferably with high traffic volume >= 20 TB), plus a couple of small < 1GB, 1 vCore, SSD boxes.
Interesting topic! I think the number of servers that feel “enough” really depends on what projects you’re running and how scalable your setup is. I’m currently at around 6 mixed-use VPS and feel okay for now, but sometimes I catch myself browsing deals “just in case.” The urge to add more never really disappears—it’s more of a mindset than a number.
mentally strong people dont need server, ftp hosting is enough & ipv6 is everything. @yoursunny m i right?
someone is going to blow Rubben mind when he find out there is cheaper @Francisco horse cock vps for only $2 per month
IPv9 NAT OpenVZ VPS for mentally strong (and arm-strong) people
Han Xin counts the soldiers—the more, the better.
2025 peer pressure
Ok blow me
yes
Everytime I visit LET: I just need ONE MORE server......
so any dealz? 😂😂😂
That's the spirit, keep it up
That is nice, FYI, is the avatar a baby @fat32 ?
cool if it is
2 Dedicated (soon to be 1), 1 VDS backup for the dedicated (may get another really cheap vps for the dedicated backup), 1 data vps and 3 backup data vps's (they are cheap but good, I need to get rid of 1or 2 eventually) . A few S3 backups backblaze east w/replicate to west, Storj (awesome) and Telnyx S3 backup (unused)
Yes I'm following his foot steps...baby dino with baby steps 😂
A crucial website ought to have:
These can get your data 99.99% secure.
Full article including how to reach 100%:
https://dev.to/yoursunny/how-many-servers-do-you-need-for-a-crucial-website-51np
my cat would rather sit in the sun all day
Always need more, Cant have to many
I'm on almost 90 at the moment and the number needs to go up.... there can't be enough servers
I have around 60 or so at any given time, sometimes more, at least 40 of them does nothing or very close to nothing.
I always tell myself that I really do not need more servers, but then I visit LET and someone has a sweet yearly deal and my brain does some calculations and think "that is actually less than what I spend on pizza every week" and then I buy it just because it's less than what I spend on pizza every week.
Unfortunately, I eat a lot of pizza so most yearly deals are less than what I spend on pizza. I'm fucked.
We use HelloFresh meal kits.
The weekly delivery of a 10-serving box is $80~100 depending on discounts.
In contrast, our most expensive VPS is $80~100 every 2~3 years.
It's hard to not buy servers when the math just maths, isn't it?
Our grocery + meal kit purchases are limited by available fridge space.
Our restaurant purchases are limited by available calorie count.
Our VPS purchases are limited by available hostnames.
They are the same.
In the end, excess money is generally spent on experiences: trips, museums, parks.
These purchases are limited by available time, but we still have some left.
Nice yatch u got there, flexxxx
how many?
I have about 20 servers or VPS for my own use, and it was as high as 50 at one point.
I have 9 :33333. All of them are doing at least something.
Is collecting idling servers a thing?
I had no idea. 
We run a lot of servers... but our "collection" comes in a different form, and it's due to some of our tech guys being hoarders.
We have 6 storage units full of old servers that we no longer use but that we haven't had the time to send to e-cycling, but mostly because some of us refuse to let them go.
The old "you never know when we might need one of those!" philosophy...
There's even 6 Cisco GSR 12000s inside one of those units...