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Re:Hetzner Price Adjustment by carlhjerpe on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:32PM (#32429140)
This is the way. You don't need high density at home (usually) so don't pay the price for it. Get a mobo with ECC ram that fits an ATX case if you want server grade stuff. If you don't use stupid tech like VMware it won't eat your resources either (not that VMware is bad in a datacenter, but it is quite resource hungry in comparison to virt-manager or Proxmox).

I mean unless databases or Java are your favorite things in the world.

Configure power saving as well, that way your CPU really doesn't consume a lot.

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Re:Hetzner Price Adjustment by mistrial9 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:25PM (#32429806)
> mobo with ECC ram that fits an ATX case

yes, and careful choice of graphics card; GPU computing is special purpose and can be costly in an urban area

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Re:Hetzner Price Adjustment by carlhjerpe on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:35PM (#32429932)
Indeed, I don't know how dense the megascalers build, it looks less dense than what I see at work compared to the few videos that are out there.
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