What brand of servers was used?
Yes, considering the importance of the power draw, I wondered if ARM servers were used.
oh yes we want to; I even priced a couple out. Most of the SKUs I found were pretty old, and we couldn't find anything compelling to risk deploying at the scale we wanted. It's on the wishlist, and if the right hardware comes along; we'll rack it up even as a bet. We maintain Nixpacks (https://nixpacks.com/docs/getting-started), so for most of our users we could rebuild most their apps for ARM seamlessly - infact we mostly develop our build systems on ARM (because macbooks). One day.
> We maintain Nixpacks
I _knew_ Railway sounded familiar.
Out of curiosity: is nix used to deploy the servers?
Not ATM. We use it in a lot of our stack, so we will likely pull it in in the future
Got it. Especially interested to see how you set up PXE. Seen a few materials out there but never got around to doing it in my lab.
Looking forward to more blogposts!
Looks like Supermicro.
Where do you buy this, direct from Supermicro? Asking as a Dell customer… our servers are $$$
We have a distributor we work with - just because it makes import/export a lot easier. But we get to interface directly with Supermicro for the technical/design stuff, and they're super awesome. If you're looking in the US, reach out to their eStore - really great fuss-free turnaround and all direct.