[forsalebypwner]

the very last line of the article:

"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."

[pelasaco]

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.

[kube-system]

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.

[0]: https://static.cisco-eagle.com/images/category/WireCrafters/...

[1]: https://www.edpeurope.com/wp-content/uploads/EDP-3-Compartme...

[pelasaco]

> 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...

[kube-system]

You could fit 10 million dollars of GPU rigs in the smallest of cages. A cage is an entire room. You don't need that to run a few servers.

[pelasaco]

> A cage is an entire room.

Not everywhere. Running a data center myself, we have cages for 1 rack, 3 racks and so on..