Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers

Re:Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers by torginus on Friday April 10, 2026 @10:32AM (#47718766)

The funniest thing about huge enterprises is that they often have processes so convoluted and restrictive for everything, that getting stuff done by the book is basically impossible, so people get creative with the limitations and we often end up with the sketchiest solutions in existence.

I hope the words 'web server hosted in Excel VBA' illustrate the magnitude of horrors that can emerge in these situations.

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Re:Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers by qazxcvbnmlp on Friday April 10, 2026 @11:09AM (#47719310)

Raspberry pi on a network controlled power supply to rebroadcast udp broadcast traffic across subnets

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Re:Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers by itintheory on Friday April 10, 2026 @03:02PM (#47722243)

I saw an entire physical switch configured for bridging VLANs. It was even labeled as such. 802.1q is hard and confusing if you don't know what you're doing.

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