• cheesybuddha@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I got into self hosting a while back

    EOL enterprise equipment can be very thrifty. But if you ever need something specialty that isn’t available in the second hand market, good luck.

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      And watch that electricity bill, adding a bunch of hardware to play around with and your utility company suddenly thinks there must be an additional person living there…

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        I used to run a grow room in my basement, with about 4kw of equipment, so running my systems all hooked up through a 2kw PSU is actually a step back in cost. lol