Hi everyone!

I saw that NixOS is getting popularity recently. I really have no idea why and how this OS works. Can you guys help me understanding all of this ?

Thanks !

  • root@precious.net
    1·
    1 year ago

    Thinking about this further…

    I can purchase 10GE fiber, at home, for $299/mo.

    I can purchase a solid 16 bay Supermixro server for around $5k

    16TB drives are $168. There’s $3,700 left so let’s buy 21 drives (336TB, 235TB usable under raidz3 zfs). We’ll leave that last $170 for … electricity.

    Leasing all of this from a regular hosting provider woul be much more cost effective. I work for one, what the heck are you doing man?

    • Atemu
      1·
      1 year ago

      You aren’t a reputable public hoster with AWS-class uptime. That has a price too. AWS is likely overpriced though, hence the nix community still looking for better alternatives.