Comment by aetherspawn
Comment by aetherspawn 6 hours ago
What brand of servers was used?
Comment by aetherspawn 6 hours ago
What brand of servers was used?
oh yes we want to; I even priced a couple out. Most of the SKUs I found were pretty old, and we couldn't find anything compelling to risk deploying at the scale we wanted. It's on the wishlist, and if the right hardware comes along; we'll rack it up even as a bet. We maintain Nixpacks (https://nixpacks.com/docs/getting-started), so for most of our users we could rebuild most their apps for ARM seamlessly - infact we mostly develop our build systems on ARM (because macbooks). One day.
> We maintain Nixpacks
I _knew_ Railway sounded familiar.
Out of curiosity: is nix used to deploy the servers?
Got it. Especially interested to see how you set up PXE. Seen a few materials out there but never got around to doing it in my lab.
Looking forward to more blogposts!
Where do you buy this, direct from Supermicro? Asking as a Dell customer… our servers are $$$
We have a distributor we work with - just because it makes import/export a lot easier. But we get to interface directly with Supermicro for the technical/design stuff, and they're super awesome. If you're looking in the US, reach out to their eStore - really great fuss-free turnaround and all direct.
Yes, considering the importance of the power draw, I wondered if ARM servers were used.