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jdoss ◴[20 Nov 24 07:41 UTC] No.42191598[source]▶

I have a rack in a datacenter with mostly 5 year old Supermicro servers. We bought them all off of Ebay for no more than $400 each. They work great and we have more compute and bandwidth for our workloads for less than $1000 a month. If we used one of the could providers it would be many thousands of dollars per month. I understand not everyone has the skills to run their own rack but the value of doing so is totally worth it.

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1. sebazzz ◴[20 Nov 24 17:14 UTC] No.42196068[source]▶

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I imagine with Linux this might be less of an issue than Windows, but at least with Windows you see that Dell etc stop supporting newer Windows Server versions on older servers.

Regardless, security issues in out of band management systems might also not get patched.

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Researchers have built server prototypes that re-use old components