Thanks, good info. Never had any problems with pfsense or opnsense with Intel server NICs personally. Other than being fried.

Same. Quad port Intel NIC.

I had no problems communicating a higher limit. They are not AWS but you can get 100s of instances.

Connect your server to the Fritzbox via a patch cable.

Are the alternatives feature-complete in regards to GitLab CE?

Do not use WLAN, use wired Ethernet. What’s your upstream? It’s limiting the rate you can serve the content.

EdgeRouter is proprietary but minimal. You can also look at Opnsense running on a used thin client off ebay.

Yes, but all mine are off. For powersaving reasons.

1 kW would cost me some 17 EUR/day. Or over 6100 EUR per year.

I know about Servermonkey, and the prices there aren’t nice at all. I’m rather sticking with old servers with roughly the same specs, but perhaps twice the wattage and noise, which only run occasionally. The 24/7 stuff is already on a low-power footprint, though I don’t have a successor for that little Supermicro when it bites the dust. I’d rather pay way less than 1 kEUR for it.

Actually, these are mostly dual-socket boxes with lots of cores, ECC RAM and lots of 3.5", 2.5" spindles and SSDs, plus private storage networks, and such.

Instead of a NUC I run a 1U Supermicro 8-core Atom C2758 with 16 GB RAM and SSDs which is quite durable but will die eventually. With more modern hardware I meant something like that, only with onboard 10G and/or 50G (SFP+/SFP28/SFP56) with more and better cores as well as onboard NVMe along with frontal SAS/SATA slots. And of course some larger SSDs to populate these.

I agree. Which is why I only run a firewall on a thin client, a low-power 8-core Atom C2758 Proxmox with SSDs and an external HDD and a fanless switch, all for about 70 W total 24/7/365. Any other server is one of the 120 W, 300 W or 500 W kind. These do add up.

It’s Germany. Regular rates are some 0.3 EUR/kWh at the moment, I hope to be there by May next year. Meanwhile, I currently make some half of my net power with photovoltaics. It helps to keep the costs down.

I’m actually making about 6 kWh/day from photovoltaics since mid-April averaged, which is about half my last year’s total electric energy consumed. I might be able to boost that to 8 kWh/day later this year. This is all while running very little infrastructure, for cost reasons.

I’m weird, so I have 10G/40G networking and half a rack that would burn 10 kW when all fired up. My major cost issue is power, which is currently 0.7 EUR/kWh though capped at 0.4 EUR/kWh for a while. I could use some more modern hardware but it’s no longer bountiful and cheap.

Unfortunately no old cloud servers or switches on ebay. As such availability of used hardware is more limited in future.

Why do you think it’s not worth it? What was your experience running it?

Do you think the Fediverse would scale to a 1:1000 instance to user ratio?