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by kjsthree 1950 days ago
What does that guy actually do with the box then? There’s no way his home internet connection could keep it fed. I’m trying to imagine local uses for all that I/O.
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Or maybe better said, there’s no way that box could feed the world over his home connection.
The box is for experimentation & learning for fun and profit! :-)

When running some application on the box that processes & reduces the dataset (for example some analytics in RDBMS SQL), then the amount of data returned to the world would be much less than 66 GB/s. I have a 1 Gbit AT&T Fibre at my home(office), so could serve quite a lot through that (until AT&T starts complaining about the "unlimited" bandwidth really not being unlimited after some threshold :-)

But when not hosting stuff in a proper data centre with redundant internet connections, connection reliability would probably be the biggest issue. I've not had that many problems with reliability in the home-office (and occasional online training) usage context, but I'm pretty sure there'd be regular "hiccups" if I tried to serve something with high availability from here :-)