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by Karrot_Kream 1598 days ago
> Here's my other beef with cloudflare: Once I gotta pay 200+/mo for their security services or whatever, I could just rent out a private rack in a colocation and throw some old beefy lga-2011 xeon hosts. Now I don't need anything on my LAN exposed and I have dedicated IPs, physical security, and backup generators...etc.

Yeah but now you need to source the hardware for the rack, make sure it stays up and there's no hardware failures, etc, etc. Even simpler is to grab a Linode dedicated box which comes with v4 and v6 IPs and you get all the benefits for only $30 / mo instead.
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rank0 1597 days ago
Second hand dual lga2011 machines are so cheap it’s amazing. Enterprise grade servers are mega reliable I think people overestimate the probability of hardware failure.

A $30 linode box has like 2 vcpus and maybe 4Gb ram.

Where I live I can get a 1U slot in a shared colo rack for $30-$60/mo. Buy a used dual Xeon blade for a few hundred bucks and now I have a setup with 20x the resources. But yeah I admit there’s a lot more manual effort involved.

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Karrot_Kream 1597 days ago
IMO if you can get a 1U for those prices, it's silly not to take it. Where I'm at I can't though and that's where a dedicated Linode box may make more sense.
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