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    • coliverC
      coliver @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said:

      My home labs always costed way more than that in power.

      One whitebox server with a really lightweight processor and RAM. The spinning rust is what chews up all the power.

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      • coliverC
        coliver @Dashrender
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        @Dashrender said:

        @scottalanmiller said:

        My home labs always costed way more than that in power.

        Well, you lived in expensive areas and probably had 10x more servers/.

        Power is fairly expensive around here. I think a bit above the national average.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @Jason
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          @Jason said:

          @coliver said:

          @Jason said:

          These days with has cheap as cloud hosts are I don't think it's worth the costs of a home setup.

          I don't know my home lab probably costs me 30-40$ a year in power. I run ~15 VMs at a given time (fewer now). Plus I have the flexibility to assign as many resources as I want to those VMs without having to pay more money.

          Power is what I was referring to. Some cloud ones only charge you when powered on

          No major cloud does that. I'm not aware of any that do that, actually. They all (AFAIK) charge as long as the VM exists, powered on or not.

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          • RamblingBipedR
            RamblingBiped
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            It was suggested that it is worthwhile to grab a server with the H700 raid controller over the PERC6i. Would this build be a better value then?
            http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-R710-2x-E5620-2-4GHz-Quad-72GB-H700-DVD-iDRAC6-2x-power-8x-trays-/221920398089?hash=item33ab7c8b09
            And if so what drives would you suggest buying since this comes without storage.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              H700 is a nice upgrade option.

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              • BRRABillB
                BRRABill @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said:

                No major cloud does that. I'm not aware of any that do that, actually. They all (AFAIK) charge as long as the VM exists, powered on or not.

                After we discussed that the other day, I found out the Azure does not bill in the stopped (de-allocated) status.

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                • RamblingBipedR
                  RamblingBiped @RamblingBiped
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                  Thoughts on using 4 of these drives and saving a little cash? I don't need uber performance by any means, do you think these would be adequate?

                  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236342

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                  • J
                    Jason Banned @BRRABill
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                    @BRRABill said:

                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    No major cloud does that. I'm not aware of any that do that, actually. They all (AFAIK) charge as long as the VM exists, powered on or not.

                    After we discussed that the other day, I found out the Azure does not bill in the stopped (de-allocated) status

                    Yep azure does lots of cool things. We even have a direct gigabit uplink to Azure.

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                    • BRRABillB
                      BRRABill @Jason
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                      @Jason said:

                      @BRRABill said:

                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      No major cloud does that. I'm not aware of any that do that, actually. They all (AFAIK) charge as long as the VM exists, powered on or not.

                      After we discussed that the other day, I found out the Azure does not bill in the stopped (de-allocated) status

                      Yep azure does lots of cool things. We even have a direct gigabit uplink to Azure.

                      @scottalanmiller miller and I were discussing "pay as you go" the other day. I wonder if other cloud providers work the same way.

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                      • J
                        Jason Banned
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                        @RamblingBiped said:

                        Thoughts on using 4 of these drives and saving a little cash? I don't need uber performance by any means, do you think these would be adequate?

                        http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236342

                        No Idea. WD redid their lines recently. I'd really just pickup a lot of used drives for a lab. You can find 10x 1TB deals on eBay sometimes for $200

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                        • RamblingBipedR
                          RamblingBiped @Jason
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                          @Jason Good call, I don't know why that didn't initially occur to me... They have the 1TB drives for $34~, that seems reasonable enough for what I'm doing; and they seem to be readily available from numerous sources.

                          Thanks!

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @BRRABill
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                            @BRRABill said:

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            No major cloud does that. I'm not aware of any that do that, actually. They all (AFAIK) charge as long as the VM exists, powered on or not.

                            After we discussed that the other day, I found out the Azure does not bill in the stopped (de-allocated) status.

                            It DEFINITELY bills when stopped. It does NOT bill when deleted. Deleted is obviously stopped, saying stopped implies that it still exists.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @RamblingBiped
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                              @RamblingBiped said:

                              Thoughts on using 4 of these drives and saving a little cash? I don't need uber performance by any means, do you think these would be adequate?

                              http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236342

                              Very slow but not so bad in RAID 10.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @Jason
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                                @Jason said:

                                @BRRABill said:

                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                No major cloud does that. I'm not aware of any that do that, actually. They all (AFAIK) charge as long as the VM exists, powered on or not.

                                After we discussed that the other day, I found out the Azure does not bill in the stopped (de-allocated) status

                                Yep azure does lots of cool things. We even have a direct gigabit uplink to Azure.

                                But it bills exactly the same as AWS. If you stop your VM, you continue to pay. It tells you this in a big warning when you power down a VM. It explains that when you go to power it down so that you don't think you will be saving money.

                                All of the big clouds work the same. Because you still have the resources allocated until you destroy the instance.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @BRRABill
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                                  @BRRABill said:

                                  @scottalanmiller miller and I were discussing "pay as you go" the other day. I wonder if other cloud providers work the same way.

                                  They all work the same. All major clouds have identical billing models. Someone, somewhere does something differently but none of the real players. Amazon, Google, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, Vultr, Joyent, Rail Yard, Heroku, Rackspace, IBM Softlayer, Verizon, etc. all the same. Different prices, different features but the same model for billing.

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                                  • BRRABillB
                                    BRRABill @scottalanmiller
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                                    @scottalanmiller said:

                                    It DEFINITELY bills when stopped. It does NOT bill when deleted. Deleted is obviously stopped, saying stopped implies that it still exists.

                                    Is "Stopped Deallocated" deleted?

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @BRRABill
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                                      @BRRABill said:

                                      @scottalanmiller said:

                                      It DEFINITELY bills when stopped. It does NOT bill when deleted. Deleted is obviously stopped, saying stopped implies that it still exists.

                                      Is "Stopped Deallocated" deleted?

                                      I have no idea. Is that a term that someone uses?

                                      Simple question is... can it be turned back on? If so, then no. The ability to turn back on means you didn't stop paying.

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                                      • BRRABillB
                                        BRRABill @scottalanmiller
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                                        @scottalanmiller

                                        It has been the state of the machine is in Stopped (Deallocated) means that you have made a shutdown by Web Management Interface Azure ( SHUTDOWN BUTTON ). In this way the cost of virtual machine will not be charged, but the public and internal IP will be deleted.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @BRRABill
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                                          @BRRABill said:

                                          @scottalanmiller

                                          It has been the state of the machine is in Stopped (Deallocated) means that you have made a shutdown by Web Management Interface Azure ( SHUTDOWN BUTTON ). In this way the cost of virtual machine will not be charged, but the public and internal IP will be deleted.

                                          If that is the wording from Azure then it is new. The last time I powered down an instance on there, which was not all that long ago, they stated very clearly that you would be charged in that instance.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
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                                            This implies that you now get free storage? So you could put a 1TB file server up there, power it down and it is free for forever?

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