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How many servers do you have and how much you spend per year?!

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  • itachikonohaitachikonoha Member
    edited November 2025

    Berohost 69€/year.
    Berohost 30€/year
    Hostdzire 28€/year
    Layer7 50$/year
    Host c 57$/year

    Other VPS I try monthly basis but these are the ones I try to keep.

    Thanked by 7layer7 loay mandala remy vastness4594 berohost COLBYLICIOUS
  • hyperblasthyperblast Member

    @remy said: What did you keep if i may ask ? you were always looking for beefy and performant server if i remember correctly

    @dataforest @berohost (2x) @FameSystems @layer7 @ionos (not beefy but still nice for 1€/m).

    Thanked by 3layer7 remy COLBYLICIOUS
  • hyperblasthyperblast Member

    @itachikonoha said:
    Berohost 69€/year.
    Berohost 30€/year
    Hostdzire 28€/year
    Layer7 50$/year
    Host c 57$/year

    Other VPS I try monthly basis but these are the ones I try to keep.

    good selection

    Thanked by 1loay
  • zejjntzejjnt Member

    No thanks I have trouble sleeping as is

    Thanked by 2remy Peppery9
  • Kevinf100Kevinf100 Member

    @FAT32 said:

    @FAT32 said:
    Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, and a LET member their idler count.

    What's your not idler price/count?

    Thanked by 1FAT32
  • AstroAstro Member

    @zGato i wanna know yours

    Thanked by 1loay
  • rungkadmenrungkadmen Member

    around 11 servers, mix triennialy and yearly billing. and off course some of em are idler🤣
    yearly cost around $250

    Thanked by 2mandala remy
  • eb1995eb1995 Member

    @layer7 said:
    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.

    I think it's just fun to learn stuff and it's pretty addictive.

    They also double up as VPNs. Some used for storage, experiencing/managing other operating systems, comparing systems and hardware.

    There's always that thought of "ah but that's better, and a better location and it's cheap"

    Thanked by 2mandala oloke
  • FAT32FAT32 Administrator, Deal Compiler Extraordinaire

    @layer7 said:
    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.

    I feel attacked...

    Well I call it Hoarding Disorder. It doesn't take up any physical space to hoard it, but it makes people feel good.

    Either way I am really considering to cancel more VPS now... please forgive me for contributing to the carbon footprint :cry:

    Thanked by 6truemagic mandala remy vastness4594 indiankesh zejjnt
  • kkonekokkoneko Member

    Not much, around 2 dedi, and 8 VPS, around 225€/yr

    2 Dedi with 32tb and 16tb as storage
    4 VPS act as a shield for my dedi from DMCA
    1 other as VPN and grafana for monitoring
    3 other idling

    Also have 1 homeserver (1650v4, 6x1.92tb ssd, 2x 4tb hdd) with around €7/m electrical usage

    Thanked by 5mandala sh97 oloke remy vastness4594
  • ebietsyebietsy Member

    no…. i cant count.

    Thanked by 2mandala oloke
  • zGatozGato Member
    edited November 2025

    @Astro said:
    @zGato i wanna know yours

    hasn't changed much, I only keep cancelling lol.

    but around 400 as usual. Most of them are idling, or partially being used.

    i don't know, nor I want to know, how much it all costs. When an invoice comes, I just evaluate if I should cancel or not.
    the fun part is finding out about vpss i've paid for over a year and didn't even know I had :joy:

    Thanked by 18mandala MohamadSY sh97 cainyxues tentor remy ebietsy lukast__ sipe loay FAT32 jnd Peppery9 vastness4594 jaden COLBYLICIOUS barbarza fluffernutter
  • MagdAlmuntaserMagdAlmuntaser Member
    edited November 2025

    i've 2 Dedicated Server ,, and 7 vps:

    • One from binaryracks (Intel): $1618/yr
    • One from contabo (AMD): $117/mo=$1404/yr

    The remaining 7 VPS are all small, with annual subscriptions ranging in price from $7 to $20. They were paid from LET promotions and I'm only using them for testing my personal projects.

    And I'm still looking for (AMD Ryzen 9950X) server, so I'm waiting for Black Friday :#

  • AstroAstro Member

    @zGato said:

    @Astro said:
    @zGato i wanna know yours

    hasn't changed much, I only keep cancelling lol.

    but around 400 as usual. Most of them are idling, or partially being used.

    i don't know, nor I want to know, how much it all costs. When an invoice comes, I just evaluate if I should cancel or not.
    the fun part is finding out about vpss i've paid for over a year and didn't even know I had :joy:

    I am genuinely curious about your use case for so many servers. They cant all be idling for someone with that many servers.

    Thanked by 1mandala
  • Mik3y326Mik3y326 Member

    5 dedi, 18 VPS, ~2k € / year. Approx. 50% of my VPS are idlers

    Thanked by 1vastness4594
  • lukgthlukgth Member

    8 VPS, 2 dedis, ~1500€/yr, mostly idle

  • ascicodeascicode Member

    about 1k, higher or lower. Removing webhosting and some vps soon. Try take only if worth the price.

  • vitobottavitobotta Member

    @zGato said:

    @Astro said:
    @zGato i wanna know yours

    hasn't changed much, I only keep cancelling lol.

    but around 400 as usual. Most of them are idling, or partially being used.

    i don't know, nor I want to know, how much it all costs. When an invoice comes, I just evaluate if I should cancel or not.
    the fun part is finding out about vpss i've paid for over a year and didn't even know I had :joy:

    FOUR HUNDRED SERVERS??? For personal use?

  • razperrazper Member

    i have 6 dedi's:
    1270v6 64gb 2x1920nvme X 4 9.99/month each
    1270v6 32gb 2x1920nvme X 1 9.99/month each
    1650v4 64gb 2x1920nvme X 1 14.99/month
    total 65~ euros a month :)

  • remyremy Member

    @vitobotta said:
    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:

    • Kimsufi dedicated server for several apps
    • Hetzner VPS for mail server
    • Netcup VPS for uptime monitoring
    • Tietokettu VPS for VPN
    • NovaCloud storage VPS for Restic backups
    • NovaCloud VPS for the high performance backend for Nextcloud Talk (video calls)

    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

    Congrats!
    You seem to have only what you need!

    I try, but I can't do it.

    Thanked by 1nghialele
  • remyremy Member

    @MagdAlmuntaser said:
    i've 2 Dedicated Server ,, and 7 vps:

    • One from binaryracks (Intel): $1618/yr
    • One from contabo (AMD): $117/mo=$1404/yr

    The remaining 7 VPS are all small, with annual subscriptions ranging in price from $7 to $20. They were paid from LET promotions and I'm only using them for testing my personal projects.

    And I'm still looking for (AMD Ryzen 9950X) server, so I'm waiting for Black Friday :#

    @Mik3y326 said:
    5 dedi, 18 VPS, ~2k € / year. Approx. 50% of my VPS are idlers

    @lukgth said:
    8 VPS, 2 dedis, ~1500€/yr, mostly idle

    Is it really for hobby those who spend over 1K / year ?

  • sillycatsillycat Member

    @layer7 said: So, what are you actually doing with this mass of servers / resources?

    Are you saying I should stop paying my Layer7 invoices?

    Thanked by 3oloke loay zejjnt
  • elliotcelliotc Member

    I was thinking ~100, and finally got a number 400 after calculation. Oh my fucking god.

    Thanked by 3FAT32 jnd fluffernutter
  • remyremy Member

    @elliotc said:
    I was thinking ~100, and finally got a number 400 after calculation. Oh my fucking god.

    Is everything automated with Chef/Puppet or Ansible to maintain them ?

  • ArirangArirang Member

    I have at least 40+ in hosthatch and greencloud each.

    Thanked by 2remy vastness4594
  • bustersgbustersg Member

    3 servers = 1 cluster
    1 server - docker containers
    1 server - old method of deployment /var/www/html
    1 server - run misc scripts e.g. scape

  • elliotcelliotc Member

    @remy said:

    @elliotc said:
    I was thinking ~100, and finally got a number 400 after calculation. Oh my fucking god.

    Is everything automated with Chef/Puppet or Ansible to maintain them ?

    The cost isn't about the number of servers, but the dollar amount, LOL. I'm only using the $100 ones, and I've apparently accumulated so many that I've forgotten some of them. I haven't been very active this year, so it surprised me that I still own this many. My main setup is my HomeLab: an N100 mini PC and an old desktop with 128GB of RAM and a 3060 GPU.

    Thanked by 1remy
  • vitobottavitobotta Member

    @remy said:

    @vitobotta said:
    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:

    • Kimsufi dedicated server for several apps
    • Hetzner VPS for mail server
    • Netcup VPS for uptime monitoring
    • Tietokettu VPS for VPN
    • NovaCloud storage VPS for Restic backups
    • NovaCloud VPS for the high performance backend for Nextcloud Talk (video calls)

    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

    Congrats!
    You seem to have only what you need!

    I try, but I can't do it.

    It was like an addiction so it wasn't easy to let go of them :D But now I don't need much time to maintain the few that remain, so I can use that time for hacking or other stuff.

  • hyperblasthyperblast Member

    @remy said: Tietokettu VPS for VPN

    is the ip clean? does reddit work?

  • layer7layer7 Member, Host Rep, LIR

    @sillycat said:

    @layer7 said: So, what are you actually doing with this mass of servers / resources?

    Are you saying I should stop paying my Layer7 invoices?

    Hi,

    no! Of course you are supposed to cancel all others and transfer them to us!

    But actually i try to make customers save money and not let them pay unnecessary for stuff they anyway dont need. But i guess thats simply the usecase here ^^; So i can perfectly accept the madness strategic investment :)

    Thanked by 3oloke lukast__ nghialele
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