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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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