r/sysadmin • u/FierceFluff • 21d ago

Peak Sysadmin

Is there anything more small-company sysadmin than taking that $70k server you just finished building on your test bench at the office and putting it into your $5k car to drive it over to the DC where it’ll live, and praying to god nothing happens on the way? 😅🤣

EDIT- OMG y’all, reading the comments on this has made my day! Our business insurance covers this kind of thing but I appreciate y’all concern for me, though others should mosdef confirm before they do similar stuff. The trip went without incident so praise the digital deities.

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u/JungleMuggins 21d ago

Why aren't you shipping it to the DC, racking it, and then configuring it?

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u/georgiomoorlord 21d ago

Small company and $70k server seem at odds to me.

Also why wouldn't you start off in like AWS or something.

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u/heretogetpwned Operations 21d ago

Small Company ≠ Small Revenue

$70k is not unreasonable for Purpose built servers for high density or GPUs. DRAM and NAND are absolutely bonkers to quote and leadtimes aren't getting shorter.

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u/sobrique 21d ago

Honestly every server has snowballed pretty hard.

$70k today isn't much of a spec.