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Five years on the same $10/year box

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Carl

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Rack & Stack

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Five years today on the same €4/month box at Hetzner. Bought it august 2020, some celeron J1900, 4GB DDR3L, 500GB rust. Still pulling 23W at the wall measured with a kill-a-watt.

I've shipped pallets of gear since then. Whole generations of xeons came and went. This little guy just... stayed. No ipmi, no redundant psu, no rails. Just a supermicro mini-itx in somebody else's rack that I have never seen.

Toasting with cheap beer tonight. What's your longevity record?

visit twice: install and decom
admin

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Administrator

1 #2

Thank you for being part of this community, and congratulations on the milestone.

We do want to note that $10/year pricing was part of a promotional experiment during our early days. The hardware you're on has been running well past its expected lifecycle, and we appreciate your patience with the single-digit megabit throughput during peak hours.

We'll have more to share about our infrastructure roadmap in the coming weeks.

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MA

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#3

Five years of logs, five years of cron output, five years of dmesg warnings I redirected to /dev/null. The host that cannot be killed, only piped to a new process.

| still serving from a 5400rpm drive in 2026
| still on ipv4 only
| still no rdns delegation

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SN

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#4

5400rpm forever

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