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How does server colocation work?
We're about to be homeless, and I'm wondering if we could set up our personal desktop in a colocation datacenter to keep our websites online (most of it is hosted on our desktop, except thankfully our email) instead of putting the desktop in a storage unit with no power or internet.
Could also probably use it for cloud streaming our games that way. :3
@frost I think it's a bit more expensive than you probably imagine unless you know someone
@noiob some random website [https://www.quotecolo.com/colocation/us/california/oakland/] says few hundred dollars a month
which is a lot, but depending on the amount, might be ""doable""
okay still not really doable but cheaper than rent. Their "1U" number is $100 a month, which is like, we spend that much on transit already. But we'd need more than 1U for a desktop (cabinet-style, not rack style, whee).
@frost your desktop also probably draws more than 110W
@noiob oof! good point. Not SUPER much more than 110W, I think the pcpartpicker estimate was something like 350-400, but still definitely over that.
@noiob bad idea: get a 1U server somewhere and pop in our desktop's boot drive
(that would probably be too expensive though and I don't know if it would even work)
@noiob ...looks like server prices vary widely but they go down to "significantly cheaper than our desktop for significantly MORE capability than our desktop" (things like 64GB RAM and lots of CPU cores). Huh.
@frost yeah but those won't necessarily even boot Windows
@noiob Windows? We're running Linux already! :3
@noiob Oh hey there's a 1U server for $80 on Craigslist (down in Mountain View).
Wow holy poop. We're about to spend like double that on a cart to haul our stuff around anyway (those are weirdly expensive). Heck, we just spent that much on a hard drive for our desktop, too!
So we could get a real server, stick it in the datacenter, have a bit of a safety net for our sites for a couple months.
@noiob ...It would be way easier and cheaper to just put our desktop at somebody's house...
... but we don't know anyone in dirtspace.
@frost I mean you can ask them if they have a space for that but a rack doesn't even have a floor
@noiob Heck. I think that's what I was getting at with my original post, I wasn't sure if it was possible to just chuck a tower somewhere.