[noodlesUK]

> If you serve large files, a CDN may have a very narrow use case where the budgets make sense. If you are already pushing 23 TiB/month, than cloud providers are usually not work the effort. Some rent colocation rack space. =3

Unfortunately I'm needing to run a lot of batch compute jobs (for which the hyperscalers are just insanely expensive - even to have a machine that outclasses a nice laptop becomes silly very rapidly)

I'm considering buying some machines and racking them in a colo but it feels like buying right now is also insane because of current pricing.

[Joel_Mckay]

>but it feels like buying right now is also insane because of current pricing.

Indeed, never buy equipment unless all other choices were explored.

Note, we may be waiting till 2029 for GPU/ddr7/flash prices to fully normalize. =3

[jonatron]

Have you looked at used servers from eBay / bargain hardware / ETB tech etc?

[noodlesUK]

I have but it seems to me that the stuff that's actually particularly well priced is really old (2016-2018ish). Even a single DIMM of used 32G DDR4 from ETB is now > 250GBP. The used market is also blown to pieces because of the price pressure.

[jonatron]

Yeah it doesn't look good. Idk your requirements but this is one of the better deals I could find https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126986603191 . For used eBay servers it's always worth making an offer rather than Buy it Now.