A homelabber/sysadmin midlife crisis

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A homelabber/sysadmin midlife crisis - Lemmy.World

I have 4 DL360s with 96GB RAM each to run a K8s cluster with a handful of containers

I have 4 DL360s with 96GB RAM each to run a K8s cluster with a handful of containers

If someone is paying you to host those and covering your costs, go wild! However, as a hobby you may be spending $925/year or more for electricity to run those in the Midwest. $1,387 if you’re living in Boston, $1,850 if you’re living in California.

In one year you may have been able to buy more new power efficient hardware from just what you’re spending on juice.

Fuck it, we ball