diff --git a/Home.md b/Home.md index b0bff3f..728191d 100644 --- a/Home.md +++ b/Home.md @@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ When the commercial success of Garaia proved to be too modest and I decided to c Since then I joined my dream company and became [Commercial Lead at Canonical ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandre-micouleau-03b7393/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3Bl1sH%2Bt1gR7yuPj1uvN8vDQ%3D%3D). As such, not only did I join a company that promotes multi clouds and hybrid clouds, but a part of my job is also to prove the better economical and performance dominance of private clouds over public clouds. -And yet, it seemed a bit hypocritical of my part to keep most of my stacks on pulic clouds. Moreover, since I am now in charge of procuring servers for our infrastructure, I might as well acquire one of those for myself and have fun with it ! Well, most probably one of the great grand fathers of the kind we get at Canonical, but still ;-D ). +And yet, it seemed a bit hypocritical of my part to keep most of my stacks on public clouds. Moreover, since I am now in charge of procuring servers for our infrastructure, I might as well acquire one of those for myself and have fun with it ! Well, most probably one of the great grand fathers of the kind we get at Canonical, but still ;-D ). + +** Also, it might be fun to find that you can compete with public cloud prices even with modest/commodity hardware, since Canonical and its clients already do with larger infrastructure ** So, that's the plan: @@ -146,7 +148,7 @@ For instance, I read that HPE is only supporting their own brand of hard disks ( This config is promising as it looks like it fits both my needs and budget. -## specs comparison +## Specs comparison The config I am running for is clearly an overkill in terms of CPU : @@ -162,15 +164,23 @@ This config will provide: -## Costs -### Buying costs / CAPEX -In total for server, hard disks, and shipping : under than 250€ +## Costs Comparison +### Buying costs / CapEx +In total for server, hard disks, and shipping : under than 250€. -### Running costs +I think I could run this setup as is for at least four years, given I replace 1 HDD/year on average. + +* 250 / 4 = 62.5 € amortization / year +* 130 / 4 = 32.5 € replacement parts / year + +** Yearly CapEx would amount to 95€/ year or 8€ / month ** + +### Running costs / OpEx As the server will most probably be as idle as the existing setup, I envision it will consume around 180 to 200W. -At the current prices of energy in my area the yearly cost of energy would - +At the current prices of energy in my area the yearly cost of energy would amount to around 35€ / year or 3 € /month +### Costs verdict +**I would drop down from 36 € per month to 11.**