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Have you ever paid for a host you never used?

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FlowSana

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SRE

#1
  • I am currently paying for 3 idle VPS instances across 2 providers.
  • Specifications: 2 vCPU / 4GB RAM / 80GB SSD, Debian 12.2, provisioned 2024-03-15.
  • Monthly burn: $17.97 USD.
  • Root cause: automation scripts that provisioned DR environments for a project that was cancelled in Q2 2024.
  • Discovery date: 2026-01-20 during routine audit.

I have since implemented a monthly calendar reminder and tagging convention in my infrastructure-as-code. Recommend you do the same if you maintain more than 5 instances.

It's always DNS. Always.
Carl

Member

Rack & Stack

#2
FlowSana said:
Automation scripts that provisioned DR environments

I've got a quarter rack in a facility I haven't visited in 14 months. Dell R640, 2x Xeon Silver 4214, pulling 340W at idle. Shipping that thing back costs more than the power draw. Hardware's different, same trap.

visit twice: install and decom
walt22

Member

Austin

#3

Oh man this thread is speaking to my soul (or what's left of it after all these years of just throwing money into the void) because I was just looking at my billing dashboard last tuesday (or was it wednesday, time blurs when you're staring at invoices) and I realized I have this KnownHost instance that I spun up for a client project back in 2022 (the client ghosted me, classic, happens to everyone right) and I've been paying $8.99 a month for what, 47 months now, that's like $423 and change and I haven't logged into it once since the client disappeared (I should probably check if it's been compromised and is part of a botnet, that would be ironic, paying to host someone else's criminal enterprise) and then there's the GreenCloudVPS storage bucket I made for personal backups that I never actually configured the sync client for so it's just empty but still billing and the RackNerd ARM box I

JO

Member

7 #4

I have like 7 idle boxes. I think I am at ~$80/mo for garbage. One of them I keep meaning to use for a pihole but I never do. You are all my people.

prague1983

Member

btw I use Arch

#5

I prefer not to discuss specific holdings. Let's say certain resources are held in reserve for future optimization opportunities. Electricity costs in my primary region have shifted the calculus. The idle capacity represents strategic positioning, not waste.

oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Ricardo77

Member

White Label

#6

Through our partner ecosystem, value-added redistribution opportunities are leveraged to ensure client workloads are synergistically aligned with active infrastructure. It is recommended that dormant resources be transitioned into the partner ecosystem to maximize value-added outcomes. Synergy can be achieved through strategic leveraging of existing contractual frameworks.

prague1983

Member

btw I use Arch

#7

47 months? That can't be right. Walt22, check your math.

oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Joy

Member

#8

Synergy achieved through leveraging what now

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