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So you want to build your own data center

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259 points dban | 10 comments | 17 Jan 25 20:41 UTC | HN request time: 1.332s | source | bottom
1. aetherspawn ◴[17 Jan 25 22:58 UTC] No.42744131[source]▶
What brand of servers was used?
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2. neilv ◴[17 Jan 25 23:28 UTC] No.42744336[source]▶
Looks like Supermicro.
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3. emmelaich ◴[17 Jan 25 23:52 UTC] No.42744482[source]▶
Yes, considering the importance of the power draw, I wondered if ARM servers were used.
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4. ca508 ◴[18 Jan 25 00:05 UTC] No.42744552[source]▶
oh yes we want to; I even priced a couple out. Most of the SKUs I found were pretty old, and we couldn't find anything compelling to risk deploying at the scale we wanted. It's on the wishlist, and if the right hardware comes along; we'll rack it up even as a bet. We maintain Nixpacks (https://nixpacks.com/docs/getting-started), so for most of our users we could rebuild most their apps for ARM seamlessly - infact we mostly develop our build systems on ARM (because macbooks). One day.
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5. justjake ◴[18 Jan 25 00:15 UTC] No.42744615[source]▶
Winner winner chicken dinner!
6. VTimofeenko ◴[18 Jan 25 01:37 UTC] No.42744995{3}[source]▶
> We maintain Nixpacks

I _knew_ Railway sounded familiar.

Out of curiosity: is nix used to deploy the servers?

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7. justjake ◴[18 Jan 25 01:50 UTC] No.42745074{4}[source]▶
Not ATM. We use it in a lot of our stack, so we will likely pull it in in the future
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8. aetherspawn ◴[18 Jan 25 01:54 UTC] No.42745106[source]▶
Where do you buy this, direct from Supermicro? Asking as a Dell customer… our servers are $$$
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9. VTimofeenko ◴[18 Jan 25 03:02 UTC] No.42745426{5}[source]▶
Got it. Especially interested to see how you set up PXE. Seen a few materials out there but never got around to doing it in my lab.

Looking forward to more blogposts!

10. ca508 ◴[18 Jan 25 03:22 UTC] No.42745516{3}[source]▶
We have a distributor we work with - just because it makes import/export a lot easier. But we get to interface directly with Supermicro for the technical/design stuff, and they're super awesome. If you're looking in the US, reach out to their eStore - really great fuss-free turnaround and all direct.