out of curiosity, did you check how much would cost to rent a cage in a colocation space? Having to power your computer from two different outlets sounds wild..
The cheaper, easier solution would probably be just to get an electrician to wire up a high amperage 240V outlet just like your electric stove or dryer has, and then get a PSU that connects to that.
Would probably cost you $500-1000 depending on how difficult your home is.
The article stated that this was dismissed because the author lives in a rental apartment and he was not certain the landlord would agree to making this change.
I did not see any indication that the landlord was ever actually asked, it appeared to be the author's "sense" that any answer would be "no" from the landlord.
"If I were to do this again, I wouldn’t do a custom build like this. I would buy a standard datacenter server and rent space in a colocation center. But then I would miss saying Hi to grumbl once in a while."
Yes, i mean, he could rent a cage and run grumbl it there. It doesn't have to be a standard datacenter server, even though a standard datacenter server would be better and cheaper.
A cage[0] is ~100x larger than what you need to host a single server. Many data centers will colocate by the rack unit. At others you can get a quarter or half cabinet[1]. Even at the very largest enterprise datacenters you can colocate a single cabinet.
> A cage[0] is ~100x larger than what you need to host a single server.
Yup, but i was assuming that he wanted to experiment building gpu rigs. For sure standard GPU servers are cheaper and easy to maintain. I have two lenovos, bought them used, already EOL.. was cheap and better than any custom gpu rig.. but i was pragmatic, because my goal was to put it in production, and not to research...
Would probably cost you $500-1000 depending on how difficult your home is.