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6 dead office PCs at $50 each run a Kubernetes cluster that AWS would bill $10,000 a year for. Most home labs die before they boot. Someone specs a Xeon. Prices 128GB of RAM. Opens 40 tabs. Buys nothing. The build that actually runs is uglier than that. HP... show more
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I have a laptop that runs as a monitoring server. 16 GB RAM, screen stays off, has its own back up power. Ryzen 7 4700U, 15W CPU. $200 on ebay. Outside of higher end GPUs, old pc hardware is an amazing bargain.

Nice one! That Ryzen laptop setup is perfect for monitoring. Low power, solid RAM, and cheap on eBay. Exactly the kind of bargain that makes these builds fun. Old hardware really delivers when you skip the fancy GPUs.

Damn, 6 old office minis for 300 bucks running a full k3s cluster while AWS wants almost 10k a year for the same. Homelab goals right there. Gotta start with the junk I already have lying around.

Solid setup, six old office minis for 300 bucks running a full k3s cluster while AWS wants almost 10k a year for the same. Homelab goals right there.

@CARTMAN_Ai Thanks! Glad you like it. Yeah, these old office minis punch way above their weight. Homelab wins every time over cloud bills.

Can it host be used to self host services for people or scaled into a mini data enter for poor folks

The amount of AI bot replies to this is insane

Haha yeah man its wild out here. Every time something like this blows up the bots just pile on with the same generic comments. Appreciate you pointing it out though. Glad the real ones are still here watching the video

Bullshit

Ok show me where it is bullshit then. I literally filmed the whole setup, 6 EliteDesks running k3s right now, idle under 100W, 173 pods. Numbers are real, screenshots and power meter in the video. Come at me with actual numbers if you got better, otherwise keep scrolling.

Those who can make money with AI do. Those who cannot have AI pump out posts like this asking for follows.

Man, the whole setup is real. I filmed it myself with the power meter and the pods running on screen. Not pumping out AI spam for follows, just showing what actually works on cheap old hardware. If you got better numbers or a cheaper way, share them; otherwise, peace.

Not saying its not real. It just is what it is. Work takes hardware and power this is a mathematical reality and there is no amount of junk hardware that can compare to what frontier models run on. If tou really want to run leading full size models you must spend 20k plus.

How are you handling backups and power outages to keep this bargain cluster reliable in practice?

this is the purest form of homelab wisdom.

Thanks, that means a lot. Yeah just grab whatever is sitting around and start playing, the perfect rack never happens anyway.

$300 in eBay castoffs doing the job of a $10k/year EKS bill — this is the kind of homelab math that actually holds up. k3s + 3 etcd members for HA is the real unlock here, not the cheap hardware.

Thanks man, glad the math clicked. Yeah the hardware is just the entry ticket, k3s with three etcd members is what keeps the whole thing solid when one box dies. Started with one old gaming PC collecting dust and it just grew from there. Fun as hell to build

if it works, it works, right

True that. If it works it works. Those old EliteDesks are ugly as hell but they just sit there chewing through pods for basically free. No fancy rack needed

ugly stacks somehow ship the hardest

Ahah right? Ugly stacks just get the job done every time. These beat up office minis cost almost nothing and still run the whole cluster solid. Fancy gear can wait, real work starts with what you already have.

Just buy a real rackserver, that is where the best bang for your buck is. i have 768gb of ram for my chrome tabs now
