GiveSendGo for the Kiwi Farms 2025

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AN/ALR56 said:
How much faster will the site get with over 18.000$ in server hardware budget?
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Probably not much faster. The real benefit is that it won't spontaneously combust 3 years down the line and be unsalvageable because Null's down to his last drive and it just exploded and he has to choose between eating and keeping the site up.
 
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The shopping list we're putting together is;
- $325 10Gbps Arista switch.
- $45 1Gbps Arista switch for IPMI.
- $90 SuperMicro for IPMI.
- $15 Intel X520 10Gbps SFP+ network card.
- $1650 for four Kioxia 7.68TB U.2 NVMe SSD
Which adds up to $2,367.48 with shipping.
I also need to pick an M.2 because I think the call is to replace the M.2 we are using for the boot partition. I don't even know why but the entire site runs on a consumer grade WD NVMe SSD that is like a cheap gaymer brand.

I told the guys that know shit about hardware and networking I'm willing to buy fancy stuff and they called me an idiot and kept linking eBay listings that was 1/2 to 1/10th what I was looking at. I really trust their judgement on this stuff.

This will let me move the database onto NVMe with redundancy, create a second NVMe raid for hot attachment acceleration, and also uncap our bandwidth for attachment downloads from whatever it is right now (I think like 10Mbps or some shit). Also once we have IPMI doing routine maintenance will be less scary because if the server shuts down I can actually fix it without remote hands.
 
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Null said:
The shopping list we're putting together is;
- $325 10Gbps Arista switch.
- $45 1Gbps Arista switch for IPMI.
- $90 SuperMicro for IPMI.
- $15 Intel X520 10Gbps SFP+ network card.
- $1650 for four Kioxia 7.68TB U.2 NVMe SSD
Which adds up to $2,367.48 with shipping.
I also need to pick an M.2 because I think the call is to replace the M.2 we are using for the boot partition. I don't even know why but the entire site runs on a consumer grade WD NVMe SSD that is like a cheap gaymer brand.

I told the guys that know shit about hardware and networking I'm willing to buy fancy stuff and they called me an idiot and kept linking eBay listings that was 1/2 to 1/10th what I was looking at. I really trust their judgement on this stuff.

This will let me move the database onto NVMe with redundancy, create a second NVMe raid for hot attachment acceleration, and also uncap our bandwidth for attachment downloads from whatever it is right now (I think like 10Mbps or some shit). Also once we have IPMI doing routine maintenance will be less scary because if the server shuts down I can actually fix it without remote hands.
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Thats a great choice with those Kioxias at that price point. They know their shit
 
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Null said:
- $1650 for four Kioxia 7.68TB U.2 NVMe SSD
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I assume you benchmarked your read/write mix and are getting the corresponding drives. I assume the site is read-intensive but some database usages favor a mixed use pattern drive.
 
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I assume you benchmarked your read/write mix and are getting the corresponding drives. I assume the site is read-intensive but some database usages favor a mixed use pattern drive.
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the pci 5 versions of those have like 5500MB write speeds. I didnt even think he had pci5, he acts like the server is running on moms toaster. I had suggested a cheaper, pci 4 option that was more geared towards massive storage and multiple writes, but 4 of those off ebay would have been MORE expensive for less performance
 
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the pci 5 versions of those have like 5500MB write speeds. I didnt even think he had pci5, he acts like the server is running on moms toaster. I had suggested a cheaper, pci 4 option that was more geared towards massive storage and multiple writes, but 4 of those off ebay would have been MORE expensive for less performance
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We don't, we have PCIe 4.0
 
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Thats all well and good, but you know whats better then that? Twice as much. Get on the coin flips, casinos don't want you to know this but it's literally free money. you type in $36,000 into the wager, but the green button and its magically $72,000.

I'm super exited for this, Year of the Kiwi is every year these days.
 
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Null said:
The check system is WIP (trying to get a bank to play nice with us, applications in works).
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Feel free to scream at me if this has been recommended before, but have you seen BTCPay server? Really nice checkout system.

Relatively painless self-host. Guess the only issue you might have is the cashing out your gambas from BTC to USD, have been setting up a system for my clients and I'm sure I saw a solution that uses Pull Payments to transfer from BTC to USD.
 
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I've closed the campaign so that funds won't trickle over into new banking days. Sorry if you missed out and wanted T&H. The check system is WIP (trying to get a bank to play nice with us, applications in works).

I'll let you guys see what I buy as soon as I get it in. I'm going to get a 10Gbps Switch and an NVMe. I'm not 100% sure if I have U.2 or M.2 drives available to me though and will probably need remote hands to look at it.
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Investing in a security device like a PFsense would be a good investment too. If I remember right LFJ talked about having people scan KFs infrastructure and something about vulnerabilities in Layer 7 this could fix that if you add the right software for network monitoring.
 
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Seems that this fundraiser has been successful and the goal was reached rather quickly! Congratulations!

Considering how simple this has been (compared to previous fundraising endeavours) it tells me that it's not incompetence, but pure malice that causes so many payment processors to backfire on Kiwifarms.

@Null would you be interested in using GiveSendGo again? Providing that you still get the money with no further complications.

You have a community that is fiercely ride or die, a community that really enjoys using the Farms and wishes so very much to stick it to certain powers that have relentlessly tried to kill the site out of evilness. So personally I hope this is a win that lasts.
Godspeed.
 
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congratulations null, and also to everyone using the site, upgrades are exciting for us and a nightmare for null which usually means content for us about null being angry at the computers and the churlish, duplicitous, and sullen indian slaves who serve them in the big computer houses.
 
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Joosh right now:



 
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Joosh right now:

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Following up on this, I wonder if any of Jersh's alogs paid up just for a chance to shit on him, so that this would be appropriate:

made this one back when CECA Loather paid Null for a feature that lasted only 1 hour
 
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