also: depending on the time scales of havingt these machines, it sometimes
makes sense to just have a mini itx/ micro tower/etc at home! I dont have
any build recommendations but im sure folks like Ben have suggestions :)
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 10:59 PM Steven Shaw
Hi Richard,
I'd second Hetzner. They are in Europe so latency should be pretty good from England. I don't build GHC regularly but I have just purchased a machine similar to this one from Hetnzer https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex62-nvme (with only a single 500GB Samsung 500GB 970 EVO Plus) and it makes a meal of my client's application with many dependencies. We use a Hetzner machine at work as a CI server and it hasn't let us down yet.
Note that I used to use GCP because my MacBook Air wasn't really up to the task. I'd use tmux and emacs so things were pretty good (on a free trial with preemptible — shut down your machine when you're not using it and it can be pretty cheap). However, SSD speeds are not like those you get with a dedicated server. IIRC 300Gbps vs 1000Gbps.
Cheers, Steve.
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