Nerdalize: warm house, cheap datacenter • Hacker News Board

Re: Nerdalize: warm house, cheap datacenter

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Post by yetanotherphd » Sat, Nov 23, 2013, 9:57 PM UTC

shalmanese wrote: post #21

This kind of proposal has been cropping up for over 15 years now and always end up not really working out. We actually looked seriously into this as an option when we moved into a new office and two major issues were immediate dealbreakers: 1. The depreciation cost of new hardware made this economically a no go. With second hand hardware, there was some number fiddling you could do to make it kind of work until it re…

Doesn't depreciation apply equally to servers in dedicated datacenters? I think the bigger issue is the cost of going in and reparing/replacing parts when they break.

Re: Nerdalize: warm house, cheap datacenter

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Post by foxhop » Sat, Nov 23, 2013, 10:18 PM UTC

I wish I could put varnish in front of their web server for them.

Re: Nerdalize: warm house, cheap datacenter

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Post by mjn » Sat, Nov 23, 2013, 10:40 PM UTC

Here's a Microsoft Research paper on a very similar idea, from 2011: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1502...

Re: Nerdalize: warm house, cheap datacenter

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Post by nkurz » Sat, Nov 23, 2013, 11:51 PM UTC

IgorPartola wrote: post #6

MarionG wrote: post #5

That may be cheap, but once you see a little traffic spike coming from Hacker News, all you get is an "Error establishing a database connection."

And that is why to this day I always carry a stick of butter in my purse. Also, that is why I always enable WP SuperCache and nginx proxy_cache when running a WordPress site. Or just use a static site generator.

And that is why to this day I always carry a stick of butter in my purse

That sounds a like a reference, but I don't know it. Could you explain?

Re: Nerdalize: warm house, cheap datacenter

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Post by IgorPartola » Sun, Nov 24, 2013, 2:25 AM UTC

nkurz wrote: post #34

IgorPartola wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And that is why to this day I always carry a stick of butter in my purse. Also, that is why I always enable WP SuperCache and nginx proxy_cache when running a WordPress site. Or just use a static site generator.

And that is why to this day I always carry a stick of butter in my purse That sounds a like a reference, but I don't know it. Could you explain?

Sorry, probably a bit of stupid humor on my part. American Dad! season 6 episode 10. Francine and Stan have been married for a really long time and Francine always tell Stan the same story: she got her head stuck in the staircase banister and her mother got her out using a stick of butter, so now she also always carries a stick of butter in her purse in case of emergencies.

This is mildly like the situation where you should always slashdot-proof your web servers if it's easy to do, just in case some piece of content you have on there gets slashdotted. I feel like I say this so much that it's become my "stick of butter" story.