What do you do with your idle servers?

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• Flynn_Mandrake@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Make all of them run a bogosort on a list of 10-100 items. Whichever one finishes last gets shot. Repeat until you no longer have idle servers

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I too like my n x n! algorithms 8)

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• heeplr@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  make them enter powersaving states

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How do you do that on a VPS?

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    • heeplr@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      the hoster will take care usually as low energy costs is a primary goal for them.

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• PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  do some folding?

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  • agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or some BOINCing.

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    • thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I boinc in an LXC container with a cron job to run during the period in the day on weekdays when the electricity is pretty much all renewables (and I’m not watching Jellyfin). The intention is to turn sunlight into tiny forward progress towards curing cancer.

      Specifically, the Community Grid projects Mapping Cancer Markers and Smash Childhood Cancer.

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    • PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      username checks out.

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I tried finding instructions for running headless on a server, but everything seems to be for desktop users with a GUI. And the code is proprietary for some reason?

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    • FuzzChef@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you rent a VPS that might get you kicked, so check your terms first.

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  • peter@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If your electricity costs you nothing

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    • PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      thats in general the culprit with own server.

      but in my place electricity itself costs not much, half of the cost is only taxes and other expenses around the energy.

      therefore 200 kwh more or less in a year(that would be 25 watts) is not that much.

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    • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Germans with 31c/kwh 😿

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• Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I forget about them until my boss asks me why we are spending so much on cloud services.

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  • NatoBoram@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Put your Git host’s runners on them and you now have free-ish CI minutes!

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s… compiling ?

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• TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Turn them off, or repurpose them into Minecraft servers for friends. I’m using more resources running a modded server I don’t play on than I am for actual productive work these days though.

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• danhab99@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m assuming you’re talking about some individual VPC that you’re paying for and not using. If you don’t do anything with it in a week then just shut it down after downloading a disk image.

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a sporadically active server for friends and family. They access it maybe a few times a day and it’s the cheapest VPS I could find. So shutting down is not an option atm.

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• railsdev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s a good question!

  I have one running an adblocking DNS resolver.

  For my business I have one that’s only used as a proxy (dumb IP whitelisting by API provider), another running headless Chrome (scraper for services without API), and another as a VPN. I always feel so wasteful but the majority of these can’t be combined into one server for reasons beyond my control.

  For everything else, I containerize. I feel that that is much more energy efficient though I could be wrong.

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• BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tor relay

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