[57north-discuss] Hosting servers

[Andy Gaskell]

Hiya

I'm a bit late to this chat, sorry.

Yea, power costs are pretty scary, my maths/bills pegs it at £2365 p/a inc
vat, for 6x250w 24/7.

Do all six of them need to be on all the time?  If not, maybe they could
run on a remotely operated power switch thing.

I don't know if AAOD pay a fixed fee for utilities at the moment, I sort of
got that impression before, though I'm not sure where from.

Can you stash them in a cupboard in the uni somewhere? Like in
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/16/bofh_2021_episode_12/

I think all my office infrastructure runs on Arm, but it's not crunching
numbers, so it's a different sort of gig.  Also, I'm a cheap-ass when it
comes to hardware.

Cheers
Andy













On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 at 19:24, Tony Travis <
tony.travis at minke-informatics.co.uk> wrote:

> On 25/07/2021 16:29, Robert McWilliam wrote:
> > [...]
> > I'd be opposed to 57North paying for the electricity for this. It'll be
> in the ball park of all our income⁰. As much as I'd like to play with a
> compute cluster I don't think it's worth (possibly more than) all of the
> space's money.
>
> Hi, Robert.
>
> OK, fair enough - I'll put it in my garage.
>
> Thanks for the reality-check :-)
>
> Bye,
>
>    Tony.
>
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