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How are these dedicated servers, I'm curious? I'm not counting the VPSs, but how is it possible for two dedicated servers with these specs to cost only 225 euros per year?
Currently over 26 servers, around $330 per year. Most of them will be gone by the end of this month. Blame the FOMO last year's BF
Oh forgot to include the ASN I got last month and some v6 subnets. Should be around 70 bucks added to the total.
And you don't plan to replace them with new ones ?
Not really. Hopefully, gonna stay out of the rush this year.
Hi @layer7 ,
Strictly speaking i could cancel them at any time. I don't use any LET provider for "production" ready stuff. However I still try to make the best use of them, mostly running "public" services.
Couple Tor relays, couple Tor bridges, syncthing relays, i2p nodes, some privacy frontends and RIPE/globalping probes (if the network doesn't have one yet).
I think I'm also learning something, did my own geodns server some time ago and I'm still thinking about bigger projects utilizing multiple servers "across the world".
Of course I have some private uses too (mostly satisfaction looking at my dashboard), but also VPNs on some, a few servers for personal backups and allegedly even Linux ISO seedboxes (see spoiler below).
That being said, I know some LET people who actually need servers because of serious projects they run ( including your customer - @sillycat ). So it's definitely not a total waste of resources.
Hi,
i think you missunderstand me.
My point is not that server resources are running for nothing and thats bad for environment. ( Thats actually another topic ). My point is not even if anything is wasted or not. Again, its everyones choice and decision what to do with his time and money ( or not ).
I was just curious why people invest so much time and money to make any good use of 60 servers. Good use in the sense of good for the specific user who rents them. I mean he/she invests time and money. What does the user get in return? And idling server that does.... .... idling? It was already mentioned that this is some kind of digital feel_good hoarding.... thats fine with me. Its anyway not about judgement. Again, everyone is free to do or not what ever, i respect that.
I was just curious what projects/usecases/what ever might be out there to make that many servers needed.
4 vds/vps = 690 euro/yr
and i use object storage, around $150 per month
so, over $2500/yr
damn, that's a lot
I develop custom Android ROMS, among other things. And I’m trying to be 100% independent from the big internet companies.
So i'm self hosting my own infra (git, CI, gitops...) and building android ROM requires some power.
In addition, i self absolutely everything related to my personal data (email, DNS, data storage, VPN...) out of personal conviction.
Do I need 14 servers for that... No. So there’s some FOMO involved in that.
None to be hoest. I could migrate anything I run across all my machines to my good old AX101 and LE-B. But I always come up with an excuse to buy more servers. I think it has gotten worse since I have discovered LET. OVH lotery here, Black Friday there.
I know it has gotten out of control, thus I try to set a monthly limit, which somehow and magically increases as soon as I spot something I want to have. Its like a never ending curse.
Yep, I haven't had any issues at all. But it's in Finland (where I live) so not sure if it would be a good location for you depending on where you live.
Funny think is that I really wanted to use your services, and as you know I have tried a few times
You have really nice pricing for the specs and a very good reputation here. Shame that I am still having connectivity speed issues with Germany and some other countries but there isn't much I can do. At least I found that Poland works great for me, so I was lucky to have another user transfer a Kimsufi in Poland to me so I am OK now. But I really like your pricing and when I tested the servers, the performance was exactly what was advertised 
And you were also helpful with investigating the issue. Thanks
I dont like this thread. It makes me rethink life decisions...
Sorry
There's nothing bad about it, people collect all sorts of things.
KS-Mystery for 28€/month (will be replaced in few days), 336€/yr
KS-LE-B for 12€/month (144€/yr)
Netcup VPS 10 0,19€/month (2,28€/yr)
Deluxhost 15€/yr
Server at home for roughly 100€/year (electricity)
So in total without the mystery 261€/yr.
If you don't mind me asking, where is this image from?
It's addiction sir, I think I'm addicted.
I use these dedis for my work, while I use the vps for testing my projects.
each vps has a different operating system and version, and most of my projects are server-related.
I also own a very large server with a GPUs, which I didn't include in the list because I use it for AI. However, I've paying for it hourly for a year and a half, and I don't want to calculate the total because it would give me a heart attack, so I didn't add it to the list.
I mainly have two dedicated servers at Hetzner, with a monthly cost of around 170 euros. Additionally, I have a few other VPS, not many in total, which cost around 70 USD per month.
I've been avoiding thinking about this. I'm at 24 VPS for $297 USD per year, which isn't too bad I guess.
However, I gambled too hard at Casino Kimsufi and I've now got 15 dedicated chickens (+ one still to be delivered). I think I'll end up keeping 6 of them for around ~$110/month.
2.
US & SG.
US costs 11.9€/yrs.
SG costs nothing.
I have 13 right now but planning to cancel a few underperforming ones. I'm trying to put a limit of $300/yr or so for everything!
Your storage dedis seem really cheap. I'm shocked that it's possible to get 48TB of dedi storage and bunch of other VPSs as well for only 225€/yr. I'm paying around $1.25/TB/month for storage VPSs and I thought that's really cheap already
And what does having those IXVMs accomplish for you, on a practical level, that you would otherwise lack?
2 Dedicated, OVH (KS-MYSTERY, KS-LE-B): VMs, containers (incus), Docker
1 ProHosting24 BF 2024 XXL: containers
1 Netcup Nano: monitoring
Storage: Hetzner StorageBox 1 TB, HostBrr DirectAdmin StorageBox 8 TB (BF 2024 Yearly Deal)
Lifetimes: ZAP-Hosting VPS, Koofr 1 TB Storage, pCloud 2 TB Storage
Total 760 euros / year.
Better question is what do you do with those servers?
south finland aka germany
Probably a lot are just idling them
can we handle out a individual setup?
then I would cancel a few more services and move in with you instead.
i have 8 servers costing around 500 euros/yr and a random guy in this thread has 400 💀
I got 9 server around earth.
SG OrangeVps 35€/yr
NL NovaCloud 12.5 + 20 : 32.5€/yr
DE Desabo 5€/yr
US Dedirock 7$ x 2 : 14$/yr but this one was an opportunity to smell shit, so i order Ravnix to replace them in US.
US Ravnix 11$ x 2 + 25$ : 47$/yr
hostvds + upcloud waiting with some credit but vps delete, paid hourly, just as backup.
total : 133€$
Usage : make my own YT feed (yt-dlp is highly restricted with enshitification of AI training) to keep my ass far away to gafam account and collection.
Special Wireguard to pass DPI with obfuscation.
One proxy ipv6 for each home browser (to isolate fingerprinting/activity). I would like fork a foss browser to get an ipv6 proxy per tabs! ahah
Redunduncy to gain secure access to crypto rading platforme, API gateway make some statistical compute online.
And geeking about ipv6 network, tunnels, smell the future p2p projects to feed and support to avoid a massive 1984 blackout of mind.