Depends on where you are shopping. I pay €211 every month for 96 threads and 384 gb of ram (clustered) -- disks are small (around 1tb each), but I'm still nowhere near 50% utilization there.
Drama is pretty much non-existent; but when it happens, it can be a day or two where things are in a not-great state. Backups help a lot here, to easily get into a known working state -- also practicing restoring from those backups is a good exercise, so I don't mind it too much. There's nothing like learning your backup was missing some component or something, especially when the risks aren't high.
I think the worst drama ever was a partial disk failure. Things kinda hobbled along for awhile before things actually started failing, and at that point things were getting corrupted. That poofed a weekend out of my life. Now I have better monitoring and alerting.
I installed many Arch Linux for servers, they have been online for decades. There is no fuss. The only downtime was when I issued a reboot, but it was back in 5 seconds if not less.
So you really do not have to be bothered by installation or anything of these lines. You install once and you are fine. You should check out the Wiki pages of Arch Linux, for example. It is pretty straightforward. As for upgrades, Arch Linux NEVER broke. Not on my servers, and not on my desktop.
Why would you think that it is insane? It works well, and had no issues for decades. Any personal experiences you have that suggest otherwise? I would love to hear.
I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you are not regurgitating what other people have been saying (IMO wrongfully), which is: "Arch Linux for servers? Eww. Bleeding edge. Not suitable for servers.". All that said, please, do share. It will not negate those decades of no issues, however.
As I said, I maintain quite a lot of Arch Linux servers with loads of services without any issues, for decades.
I used Arch for a few years on desktop (granted that was over ten years ago), and if I didn't update frequently enough, updates would routinely break. I would never use it on a server because of that. RedHat and Debian exist for a reason.
Interesting. I have never run into that issue. Sometimes I do not upgrade for months, yet everything works after I do. Are you sure it is not a matter of archlinux-keyring? You have to update it first. Plus, you have to check out their website because once in a blue moon, breaking changes happen.
For the record, I have been running Arch Linux many years ago as well for desktop, and the only issue I ran into was related to not having updated archlinux-keyring before downloading other updates. This is most likely solved though, because it is no longer an issue. I see sometimes that there is a new version of it and it seems to work without updating it first, but to be honest, I always update archlinux-keyring first as a "just in case". Old habit.
I paid about that amount once for an ex-lease server which has been in use since 2017. A DL 380 G7 (24 threads, 128 GB) giving me all the freedom I want. A large solar array on a barn roof gives us negative energy bills so power use is a non-issue. If you have the space for the hardware and the possibility to offset power use using solar or just dirt-cheap electricity this might be a solution for you as well. There's plenty of off-lease hardware on the market which can run for many years without problems - in the intervening 8 years I have replaced one power supply (€20), that's it.
Yes. But you’re pretty much limited to residential speeds. It’s pretty hard to get a 10+ gbps symmetrical connection in a residential area. Not impossible, but unlikely.
