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<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n It is a HP ProLiant ML110 G6<\/a> with 4 cores CPU (Xeon X3430 2.40 GHz) with 16 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD and 1.8 TB HDD.<\/p>\n Detailed costs:<\/span><\/p>\n Estimated total costs for 1432 days (almost 4 years):<\/span> \u20ac 2 550.79\u00a0(VAT included)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let’s see how big of a difference is with Microsoft Azure. How much I would pay for a similar configuration for 1432 days usage with an Standard D3 VM (Non-Windows)<\/a> (CPU: 4 cores, RAM: 14 GB, Disk size: 200 GB)? <\/p>\n I am not against the cloud! I know is not the same thing – hosting a server in a room house is different than hosting a VM into Azure. I know the benefits of using Microsoft Azure – starting with creation time, continuing with the elasticity, availability \u2026 all the good stuff.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My point is: you can run cheaper than Microsoft Azure, or any datacenter provider if you host your infrastructure internally<\/span>. Of course, you pay a lot more money at the beginning (unless you have payments for the hardware purchase), you cannot scale up that easy, sometimes you have to buy a new box to be able to reach a specific computing power, physical security, failover, \u2026 . All these come with a price, but what about those situations when you definitely don’t need them? In those scenarios you get way more cheap having your own physical servers. In my case 78% cheaper!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n My final points:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Short story behind – why do I have my own server? It started in 2006 when I realized the infrastructure offered by the University where I studied was not enough for my needs.<\/i> It was not a real server. It was a CBSBW (custom-build-student-budget-workstation). It was the first PC (“server”) who was kept on for days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since the first day is running 24\/7 without problems! It is a HP ProLiant ML110 G6 with 4 cores CPU (Xeon X3430 2.40 GHz) with 16 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD and 1.8 TB HDD. Detailed costs: Server: 2.749,01 RON bought on 2010.12.13 (exchange rate 1 RON = 4.29 EUR) = \u20ac 640.79 RAM … Continue reading Thumbs up for my server!<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n\n
\nThe electricity server consumption was estimated\u00a0using the calculator available on apc.com<\/a> web site.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n\u20ac 0.3426 (D3 Linux VM cost per hour) * 24 (hours in a day) * 1432 days = \u20ac 11 774.47 (without VAT)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
\nFor 2 years I was like 90% interested to be able to RDP my machine for:<\/i><\/p>\n\n
\nI finished my studies. My needs changed. I did couple of upgrades to it and I transformed it into a “server” (Windows Server 2003 R2 + Microsoft SharePoint Services 3.0 + Virtual Server 2005 R2). It survived till end of 2010 when it simply died! Anyway it was cheap hardware. The only thing that made him “server” was the software.
\n<\/i>Of course, I replaced him, this time with a budget entry server (HP ProLiant ML110 G6). At that moment it cost me 640 EUR.\u00a0 Since the first day is running 24\/7 without problems.
\n<\/i>Ooo, do not imagine the server is hosted in a professional data center. It has its own room in my house (Iasi, Romania). I am glad so far I haven’t got issues with it, because I don’t leave there for more than 5 years. It has Lights Out 100 and is enough. In these days I use it as DNS server, ownCloud, private test environment, WordPress.<\/i><\/p>\n