quasi
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Date: April 16, 2026 11:26AM
Quiet, puny human. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
pulse
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Date: April 21, 2026 08:09AM
I have too much experience with M2 and M3.
woberto
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Date: April 21, 2026 10:57PM
One day there will be so many plus613 users that pulse will have to build his
own data centre.
GOAT1
pulse
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Date: April 22, 2026 10:04AM
I'd love to do something like that.
A billion years ago, I had a job at an ISP. I worked there for a while, then
quit and went to a (much larger) competitor, then a few months later quit that
and went back because the first place offered me more money and to be the lead
network admin. I got revert a job there a little while later (DK worked at
another, "friendly" competitor at the time).
After we did a massive bandwidth upgrade, way more than required to support dial
up customers, the company decided to offer a colocation service. The ISP had
finite space in the machine room near the office, so we bought the basement of
the building in the city where we were. It was mine & revert's job
effectively to build a data centre in the basement.
We had space for 20 or 30 racks and were focusing more on mini towers than rack
mount, but we'd host anything. We had electricians do the electrical and air
conditioning, but everything else was us. Laying flooring, installing racks,
cable trays, cabling, walls, security system (cameras, alarms, access point). I
had to run fibre through the ceiling then down the lift shaft into the basement,
standing on the top of the lift as it went down a floor at a time and tying it
off at each level. 622 mbit (OC12) dual fibre links. At that stage all our
desktop PCs had 10mbit network cards and our customers 56k modems at most. I had
nothing fast enough to test the speed, even our fastest servers only had 100mbit
network cards. I needed the full bandwidth of a dozen systems to test it and
even then I had to copy data to/from server RAM because the HDs couldn't run
fast enough! It blows me away that I have more than that to my house today.
The first computer in that room belonged to me and was called 'genesis'.
Eventually, that ran the first version of plus613.
After another year of working there I left again, went to another company for
another payrise to save some cash so I could move overseas; but honestly that
was the best job I've ever had. Didn't pay the most, not by a fucking long way.
But I REALLY enjoyed the work. My job was truly my hobby.
They let me keep the computer in there for free after I left (even though I quit
twice!) and it lasted several years. One day it died while I was overseas and I
never saw it again. Very sad. We'd already realised we couldn't host the sites
there forever and started looking for alternate hosting.
In an alternate universe, a house I wanted to buy had an office run out of it
and also had a sub basement which had air conditioning and 3 phase power. I'd
genuinely love to run a little colocation business. I think there's a gap in the
market for small system hosting; home labs, remote backup NAS that kind of
thing. I'd love to put a NAS in a colo company that doesn't cost a fortune for
remote backup of the ~200TB data I have, but is also local so fast enough that
backups can occur in an acceptable amount of time. Mostly I'd do it as a hobby
but so long as it breaks even then who cares? I don't need NextDC to host my
remote backup NAS full of Linux ISOs and goat porn. But if I could find
somewhere for, say, $50 a month? Absolutely.
So yes - would do.
woberto
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Date: April 23, 2026 07:43AM
Next step, water cooling the chip directly, rather than cooling the ambient
air.
pulse
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Date: April 23, 2026 10:47AM
Free air cooling.
Computers are fine at 30 degrees. An air filter and pulling from external air
could be done in somewhere like Melbourne 330 days a year with chillers only
running a couple of weeks.
Darwin.. not so much.
woberto
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Date: April 25, 2026 01:22AM
Fuck dude, you HAVE to watch Silicon Valley. At least the first season.
Then tell me which of you & DK is the Gilfoyle character.
