Hi,

Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> Looking at Hetzner, they have an option to rent a dedicated ARM server
> with 80 cores/threads with 256GB of RAM and 2x3.84 TB NVMe drives for
> under €300/month and a €94 setup charge. Correct me if I"m wrong, but
> that one box is ~20x our current active aarch64/armv7 capacity.

Interesting.

> Also looking at our current infrastructure at MDC, part of the reason we
> have so many x86_64 machines is because that's what was bought with the
> donated money, not because we actually needed quite that many, so some
> of the numbers might be higher than we actually need.

It was bought by the MDC, under the perception that this matched our
needs (we don’t need as much “normally” but there are peaks with
branches like ‘core-updates’ that can only be absorbed if there’s enough
computing power behind).

Ludo’.

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