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How many servers do you have and how much you spend per year?!
Hello,
I like to ask this though question in anticipation of black friday !
So this the 2025 edition
So... I currently own 14 servers for a cost of 370€ / year
That's a bit more than last year 
What about you ?
This could be a good thing to avoid compulsive shopping during black friday 
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I prefer not to answer this question.
In all seriousness, around 40 VPS servers currently.
Last time I calculated, the average price I pay for each was around $2/mo.
You can do the math, i'm too afraid.
I was expecting that
Currently:
5-8 (have to count)
Yearly expenses: 200€ ± 50€
Please... no
I stand with this man and also prefer not to answer this question.
YES!
Never quantify either the count or cost, it will put a damper on your BF spending. 😢
In the most severe cases (i.e., strong addiction) you may provide ranges
Okay, indeed that's a lot !
Thank you for being honest, you have a beautiful collection !
Real servers: few hundred $ per month
LET: around $100 per month
Colocation/LIR: $0, wish I had a reason to spend money on those things, seems interesting
i've done a major clean-up and now only have 6 left (1 windows server).
Monthly billing: 1 server, $3.50/month.
Yearly billing: 7 servers, $73.11+€48/year.
Triennial billing: 3 servers, $299/3y; 1 email service, $3/3y.
There are also 1 ASN and 5 domains, whose prices change every year.
each region a server, i think i should build myself a server and host it locally to cut down expenses 😰
I excluded servers I don't plan to renew, and the actual values may be slightly different depending on, for example, currency fluctuations:
Around 30 servers (2 dedis), each with a dedicated IPv4, for around 360€/yr. (In total: around 60 cores, 128 GB RAM, 2.5 TB SSD, and 13 TB HDD).
Actually used for something I use (excluding OS and YABS): around 3% of the HDD space, around 0.5% of the SSD space, and around 5% of the RAM.
Pro tip put all in a spreadsheet, have one column with their price in the currency you pay, in another column, use the built in currency conversion to see all prices in your local currency or USD, auto updated.
Very good for idler overview.
What did you keep if i may ask ? you were always looking for beefy and performant server if i remember correctly
I always knew that yoursunny was a reasonable man after all.
How much does it cost to get an ASN nowadays ?
I think 28 servers, 26 VMs and 2 dedis.
The dedis are 90+% of total costs.
Great price to resources ratio
Excellent idling ratio
The ASN registration was a $7/one-time Black Friday dealz.
Nowadays RIPE tax is €50/year charged to the LIR, so that LIR charged us $75 in 2024 and we hope for the same amount in 2025.
Possessing the ASN enables us to request free IXVMs, which are small servers connected to Internet eXchange Points, in various regions.
It looks fun. But I find that a bit expensive to play with.
That's maybe what i'll buy if there is a deal during bf.
Hi,
most of you are private people, right?
So, what are you actually doing with this mass of servers / resources?
I mean i have privately running a 7days2die server playing with friends. Same server is hosting a satisfactory gameserver. They run on one of our epyc VPS's.
Additionally i have a nextcloud server as VPS with some TB of data for family stuff to have a higher chance not to loose them in case what ever happens locally.
But what are you all doing with 20-60 servers? o_O
Pure fun having many and feeling good? Or is there some real, "senseful" reason behind this masses? Are you all running your private monitoring project on your 60 servers in 20 locations to monitor... your 60 servers in 20 locations? :>
No offense of course, everyone can do with his time and money what ever he/she/it wants but i am just curious what this amount of servers could be used for in a useful way.
1090 CNY / year
Actually YABS
Trending AI project: YabsArena
Over 100
all special deals 
Cost lunar = Monthly
Cost Anual = Yearly
I used to go crazy with personal servers to host all sorts of stuff, until a couple of years ago. My peak was 42 servers between dedicated and virtual. Then I started to get rid of most of them a little per time both because I didn't have much time to maintain them all and also to cut costs. Now I only have these for personal use:
However I might cancel the storage VPS with NovaCloud, not sure yet. No problems with the server, but I got it as second destination for my backups, and now I got a lot more credits from Storj for my open source work, so I can just use Storj.
At the moment I don't plan on getting any new servers
Most of the time when I had up to 40+ servers, I was using them to learn new things. I set up Kubernetes clusters in many different ways, and also tried out Cassandra, Ceph, and lots of other things. It was really just a lot of experimenting. Only a few of those servers were ever used for real apps or actual tasks.
Hello I am an addict
https://chicken.mjj.lol/ (pricing included for most VMs)
Holy shit after getting hooked up by OVH gambling I think I should reconsider my life choices LOL
I don't even want to calculate how much those costs are
And leaders wonder why their employees cannot manage accidents on cloud overspending..
Habits at home = habits at work