[rank0]

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.

[Karrot_Kream]

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.