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So you want to build your own data center

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aetherspawn ◴[17 Jan 25 22:58 UTC] No.42744131[source]▶
What brand of servers was used?
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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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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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VTimofeenko ◴[18 Jan 25 01:37 UTC] No.42744995[source]▶
> We maintain Nixpacks

I _knew_ Railway sounded familiar.

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

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1. justjake ◴[18 Jan 25 01:50 UTC] No.42745074[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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2. VTimofeenko ◴[18 Jan 25 03:02 UTC] No.42745426[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!