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400TB of disk and a 100Gbe NIC in a single server is easily affordable hardware for a hobbyist, let alone any kind of organization

yeah, there will be maintenance and setup work, but we've (web software engineers) developed a weirdly extreme fear of self hosting, even in cases where we're being killed on transfer costs

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Errr... What do you mean by "easily affordable"? A quick look on Amazon says that I'd be paying something like €18.80/TB, so buying 400TB would be €7,520 - far out of the range of the majority of hobbyists. Plus a 100GBE NIC would be another €800 or so, plus you'll need all the other ancillary things like a case and a processor and RAM and cabling and whatever the monthly cost to host it somewhere, unless your ISP gives you a 100Gbps connection (which I'm sure will be extortionately expensive if they do). End result is the hardware costs alone approaching €10,000 - significantly more if you want any sort of redundancy or backups (or are you planning to run the whole thing in RAID0 YOLO mode?), plus probably low-hundreds per month, not including the time investment needed to maintain it.

I mean, I spent about half that just on the computers in my apartment and I only have a 56Gbe LAN

I shouldn't say "easily affordable" like anyone can afford it, but rather something that you can do with off the shelf retail components (within the budget of a hobbyist software engineer, anyway)

it's cheap compared to hobbies like driving a sports car, at least!

You seem to have seriously skewed notions of what’s considered a hobbyist

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