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To what use would you put a machine of such specifications ? (media.piefed.ca)
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[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, aren't you that c10y person?

Anyway, I won't argue it could be used as a server, but 2 Gigs of Ram and a 2011 CPU paired with a TerraScale IGP is probably worse than almost any VPS. I pay 4.50€ for 4vCPUs and 8 GB of Ram, and that's pretty much the cheapest/smallest option my provider has.

[–] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah lol.

Nah there are loads of smaller instances. Pretty much any nano or micro or small AWS instance, for example: t3a.small 2vcpus 2 GiB 9.05/month

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Nice, cool project.

Ah, right. Never really got using AWS for small/private stuff. If you're in the ecosystem, that's one thing, and sure, they have global coverage that's hard to beat, but if you just need something for a small deployment, they're so expensive.

[–] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Tyty

Yeahh aws are very expensive but they are not the only ones that will sell you servers with as much compute as celery sticks to run your services 😭