Picked up a Supermicro X8DT3-F for $125 from Aliexpress, when I went to pick iy up the customs guy informed me that products over $50 will incur a %26.5 tax. First time I've been told that.
So now I need a case to put this thing in and am looking at the Phantek Enthoo Pro case, which is available in Vietnam for about $106.
I remember several people saying they have more than a few computers at home and was wondering if anyone had a spare eATX capable case lying around.
$120 for 48GB of ECC RAM, have to order 3 separate pieces to keep under the $50 rule. Ultimate goal is to populate to 96GB with dual CPU.
Add a Xeon X5670 cpus at $25 for a 2.9GHz 6/12 core/thread chip. Downside is they're 90W chips. So when I get two of them going the power bill will be going up.
Some downsides though, only USB2, SATA2, PCIe 2 (still capable of about 1GB/s for NVMe) so a bit slow but as I'll be using SSD's in an array things shouldn't be so bad. A single DDR4 ECC 16GB stick of memory costs about $160 I couldn't justify $960 for 96GB of RAM otherwise I would have gone for 2011 style board.
So base unit with 96GB and 12C/24T with a PSU will be about $615. SSD prices are plummeting right now and you can get 500GB drives for under $90 in Cambodia now. NVMe drives are also dropping but still expensive compared to SSD but $150 for 500GB isn't that bad.
Looking for an eATX case.
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wtf are you doing that needs 12 cores and 96GB? Blocknet service node with a lot of wallets?
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Ah. Isn't the point of Azure and AWS etc that you run on someone else's hardware? Surely cheaper to pay for a month or two of service than build a beast of a PC to run it locally?dv8inpp wrote:Azure stack. Owncloud or the huawei version. A learning platform
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As I said it's a learning tool. Not everyone wants their data in the cloud. The interesting thing is that you still pay for Azure services even if you own your own hardware. Azure isn't currently offered in Cambodia and you need to sign up using a phone number from a country where it is sold. I've used AWS and am using GCS, I also have access to an Azure account.
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What are you hoping to learn setting this up on a LAN? Genuinely curious.
Have you considered renting a cheap dedicated server (e.g. OVH - in Singapore for lowest latency, though other locations are cheaper). Throw Proxmox on a $75/mo dedicated server and then you're at least looking at a more realistic learning environment for managing "cloud" type services. Deploy as many learning VM's as you desire. Unless you consider dedicated server rental as "cloud".
If you are serious about learning and willing to spend some $, OVH offers some very cool infrastructure services (e.g. vRack) that can provide a great learning (and production) environment. With IPMI, unless you're interested in plugging things in or have bandwidth / latency concerns, it's not much different than having the hardware sitting in front of you. Access BIOS or EFI via virtual KVM, boot from any ISO you can upload (i.e. install any operating system you desire), etc.
Given the software you mention, you might also be interested in things like Seafile or iRedmail, etc. I've never been fond of OwnCloud personally but haven't touched it in quite a few years. I am also generally not a big fan of AWS, and most people I work with are not either. I have nearly zero experience with Azure.
Have you considered renting a cheap dedicated server (e.g. OVH - in Singapore for lowest latency, though other locations are cheaper). Throw Proxmox on a $75/mo dedicated server and then you're at least looking at a more realistic learning environment for managing "cloud" type services. Deploy as many learning VM's as you desire. Unless you consider dedicated server rental as "cloud".
If you are serious about learning and willing to spend some $, OVH offers some very cool infrastructure services (e.g. vRack) that can provide a great learning (and production) environment. With IPMI, unless you're interested in plugging things in or have bandwidth / latency concerns, it's not much different than having the hardware sitting in front of you. Access BIOS or EFI via virtual KVM, boot from any ISO you can upload (i.e. install any operating system you desire), etc.
Given the software you mention, you might also be interested in things like Seafile or iRedmail, etc. I've never been fond of OwnCloud personally but haven't touched it in quite a few years. I am also generally not a big fan of AWS, and most people I work with are not either. I have nearly zero experience with Azure.
I have ordered 2 tablet computers, 2 telephones, an ebike motor kit and a battery for the ebike all in separate transactions and all over $200. and some within the last 6 months and have never paid any customs fees for them.
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I was surprised when the customs guy told me as I've never worried about it before.
I like fixed costs plus I like working with hardware. Decided on using Openstack as the cloud platform on top of Ubuntu. Is there any local supplier of SAS drives in Phnom Penh, not the super expensive ones but ones like this. Yes not exactly high performers but they're just for mass storage. Waiting to see which SSD's will be suitable.holidayinkh wrote:What are you hoping to learn setting this up on a LAN? Genuinely curious.
Have you considered renting a cheap dedicated server (e.g. OVH - in Singapore for lowest latency, though other locations are cheaper). Throw Proxmox on a $75/mo dedicated server and then you're at least looking at a more realistic learning environment for managing "cloud" type services. Deploy as many learning VM's as you desire. Unless you consider dedicated server rental as "cloud".
If you are serious about learning and willing to spend some $, OVH offers some very cool infrastructure services (e.g. vRack) that can provide a great learning (and production) environment. With IPMI, unless you're interested in plugging things in or have bandwidth / latency concerns, it's not much different than having the hardware sitting in front of you. Access BIOS or EFI via virtual KVM, boot from any ISO you can upload (i.e. install any operating system you desire), etc.
Given the software you mention, you might also be interested in things like Seafile or iRedmail, etc. I've never been fond of OwnCloud personally but haven't touched it in quite a few years. I am also generally not a big fan of AWS, and most people I work with are not either. I have nearly zero experience with Azure.
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