I am glad I bought 128gb of ram last year.
Serious question, what does RAM help with in the context of self hosting? I recently bought 32G for my server, and it’s DDR3 ecc so it’s so cheap I could have afforded 64 but I just kept wondering what will I use it for? I rarely go north of 6G usage and that’s with half a dozen services, a Minecraft server etc… I just don’t know what kind of services are RAM hungry.
VMs mostly. What are you hosting on Minecraft that isn’t using >=4 gigs?
Also ZFS.
I am angry at myself for delaying the purchases of a mini PC about 4 months ago /:
If you buy now you can still brag about missing the next price increase when South Korea runs out of helium for chip production in 2 weeks.
I have 1.5tb of ecc ddr4 and don’t know what to do with it. Work decom’d a bunch of servers and I took ram and storage
Use them as a form of currency at this point lol
Remember that if you get an idea, fuck around, find out, and write down what you’ve learned: you’ve literally just done science. Well, with computers, so it’d be computer science, but you get my point.
Honestly it’s never been easier to start doing things, and doing things is very fun. Good advice!
Also, how is the author using 1password for credentials on server? They have service accounts now, but is there a better way than just always providing a credential when asked?
