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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 664E835221 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx12.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -11.13 X-Spam-Score: -11.13 X-TUID: xgXm+eL2mve8 Hi, Efraim Flashner 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 =E2=82=AC300/month and a =E2=82=AC94 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=E2=80=99t need as much =E2=80=9Cnormally=E2=80=9D but there a= re peaks with branches like =E2=80=98core-updates=E2=80=99 that can only be absorbed if t= here=E2=80=99s enough computing power behind). Ludo=E2=80=99.