News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Reusing Old Hardware. Parent comment

Re:Reusing Old Hardware by daurnimator on Thursday October 25, 2018 @11:15PM (#18306486)
Indeed! I used to run various services on my older generation hardware, but I realised that I was spending more than $70 a month on electricity to do so!

It's much cheaper using a couple $5 VPSes for services. The only hardware left at home that is on 24/7 is my NAS, which is because 20TB of storage costs too much in the cloud.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Reusing Old Hardware by Uberphallus on Friday October 26, 2018 @03:39AM (#18307457)
Have you considered Google Suite? https://gsuite.google.com/

You'll need a domain name to associate (and handle email, etc), and while technically you need 5 users to have unlimited storage, at the moment it doesn't seem to be enforced and a single user does have it.

Currently I'm storing ~50TB for $10/month. At this price and having 100Mbps Internet connection, I only turn on the NAS for local backups.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Reusing Old Hardware by tallanvor on Friday October 26, 2018 @08:38AM (#18308624)
That's great, but what happens when Google kills the offering or suspends your account for violating their TOS?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Reusing Old Hardware by pnutjam on Friday October 26, 2018 @11:19AM (#18310040)
Don't be surprised when Google suddenly starts enforcing space limits and dumps your data.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Reusing Old Hardware by cerberusss on Friday October 26, 2018 @08:32AM (#18308602)
If you can deal with IPv6, Vultr instances go for as low as US$2.50 -- or $3.50 with IPv4. It's insane.
[ Parent | on HN ]