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It seems excessive that I have 9 servers scattered amoung 4 countries, for my personal use. I pay $122/month for them. Entirely cooincidentially, that's the same as my cost to rent my current lovely house + personal woodland glen.

  1. newest is a 400 gb disk server in Italy. I'm very happy to finally have some fast disk on a fast uplink! Can't completely recommend this provider, but it works so far: http://lowendbox.com/blog/xenpower-15-99quarter-1gb200gb-and-20-05quarter-2gb400gb-xen-vps-in-milan-italy/ $7
  2. old donated real iron server that is mostly EOLed and I keep powered off 99.99% because carbon
  3. my home server $30 (phone, dialup ISP, solar power)
  4. server in my mom's basement $40 (fibre ISP)
  5. cloudatcost will-it-really-keep-running-indefinitely-for-free experiment VM (has so far for 6 months) $0
  6. git-annex autobuilder VM (donated by Leeds University)
  7. old "main" server VM, working on EOLing $0 (this year)
  8. branchable.com VM $40
  9. new stable server VM $5

Oh well, at least I'm not Evan.. Does identi.ca ~ pump35.e14n.biz mean there are 34 others? How many personal servers do yall have?

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>> Evan Prodromou:

“Did I leak that name, or is it showing somewhere? Reverse DNS? I don't really care, it's just weird to have those domain names showing up in public.”


I don't know about him, but I've seen mongoDB-related errors sometimes, that refer to a "failed connection to something.e14n.us", or similar.


Also, yes, pinging identi.ca returns packets from pump35.e14n.biz =)

JanKusanagi @identi.ca at 2014-06-02T20:24:14Z

Being on dialup, I always have iftop running, so I see everyone's reverse dns names. It's often amusing. :)

joeyh at 2014-06-02T22:07:05Z

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only one server, which i use for everything (including this workstation i'm typing this on). unless you count the soekris router that does also phone service. or the wireless bridge on the rooftop for the local mesh network... all this on a 30$/mth 3Mbps crappy DSL connexion.

i've had a server at home for more than 15 years, so it's unlikely to go away, but if i move off of this, i'd probably go with prgmr.com as well, because i love their logo and slogan. they also wrote a book about xen and published it for free, so yay for sharing best practices.

or maybe gandi. or maybe koumbit. who knows.

The Anarcat at 2014-06-03T00:20:55Z

My current web cluster consists of two older desktops and a EeePC (the first three machines listed here) that all sit in a corner of my garage. ;)

jpope at 2014-06-03T14:13:02Z