@rimu

I keep telling others that over and over, even over at WHT and other industry forums.

Start with at least a half rack (full being 42U) and 100A. You can buy two or three identical (I prefer Proliants, but refurb'd Dells are just as good) 1U servers for your #Proxmox VE cluster for less than $400 each on #eBay (typically 384GB RAM each and several populated SAS bays) including shipping, straight to you or your data center of choice, an inexpensive managed layer 3 switch can be picked up for under $200 and half of the colo sites will throw in a PDU at no charge.

A full rack can be had with 200A, XC, and unmetered blended gigabit transport for under a grand per month (less than .002ms from One Wilshire here in Los Angeles), so your average half rack will be a little more than half that w/100Mbps or better.

If you have your own IP block they'll announce and route for free with a letter of agency from you and with a full rack they should be willing to throw in a /19 included in those price points gratis.

Pro Tip: wait until the last week of any month BEFORE speaking with ANY sales reps. They'll sell their own mothers to get their end of month bonuses - you can save really big coz all they care about is closing and getting that bonus check.

If you're still not sure, let me quote you...

We're being taken for a ride.

Renting is not working out. It's time to OWN the means of federation!

I couldn't agree more

#federation #Fediverse #FOSS #self_hosted #Colo
#tallship

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