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Originally Posted by dreamingat30fps
Dafuq you doing running porn sites out of your house?? 
I consider myself pretty tech savvy and have waaaaay more connected devices than the average person. I have never had an issue with my wifi on any of my devices. Maybe if you have 20 people in the house all trying to stream and download stuff, but I would imagine even then you would run out of bandwidth from your ISP before you maxed out a good wireless setup.  |
I'm on CenturyLink fiber at 1Gb/s up and down. Getting my money's worth out of that bandwidth, and running a site-to-site VPN, means running a dedicated firewall/edge router with some horsepower and hardware encryption/decryption. A rackmount 1U 2-socket server with dual 10Gbe ports fills the bill nicely.
I also have a 36TB 12-drive rack-mount NAS server that holds my media, source code, and documents. I have an Oracle database on a dedicated 6U server, and a VM server with 24 processor cores and a half-terabyte of RAM. All mounted in a rack. Having a bunch of stuff on shelves or on the floor would be a huge waste of space and a hassle to wire and clean and work around.
My electric bill is around $250 a month in the winter, and about $500 a month in the summer when I'm running the AC. The server room pulls about 30-35 amps steady current draw.
And no, I don't host porn. I run a tech consulting company. Same money, without having to split it with a bunch of bimboes.