GiveSendGo for the Kiwi Farms 2025

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Null said:
$325 10Gbps Arista switch.
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I love Arista, but they are getting kind of restrictive with their licenses. It's only relevant for firmware upgrades, but if you don't have Arista support on all Arista devices you use, they can refuse to give you firmware upgrades until you are running a fully supported (I.E. paid yearly support contract).

They are also somewhat aggressive on end-of-life, so I would advise ensuring your desired router is still within the end of life/end of sales cutoff if you are buying used. I still recommend them wholeheartedly.
 
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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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Have fun with your toys! I used to love getting new electronics computer shit for Christmas! (sigh)

(edited to broaden that scope)
 
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mindlessobserver said:
Alot of people around here like to dunk on Christians, but let's take a moment to reflect that GiveSendGo got started to fund missionary work
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thats a very good idea, how hard is it to make Kiwifarms a church for tax reasons and to give our high priest Null the right to ignore any questions from the government about communications between himself and users like priests have?
 
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Null said:
Which adds up to $2,367.48 with shipping.
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What will you do with what's leftover after the 18K general expenses? I assume you need to spend most of it in order to have write offs to avoid getting raped by taxes.

I'm a tech retard so I don't understand most of this shit, but it'd be cool if there's some way the money can help buy things that improve kiwiflare's ddos protection.
 
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What will you do with what's leftover after the 18K general expenses? I assume you need to spend most of it in order to have write offs to avoid getting raped by taxes.

I'm a tech retard so I don't understand most of this shit, but it'd be cool if there's some way the money can help buy things that improve kiwiflare's ddos protection.
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I'm not sure. I might invest in something for my own computers. I might save it as bonds for a rainy day.. I've also considered buying stock in ISPs so I can yell at them in investor reports, but that's a minimum of $2000 per company for 3 years, $15000 for 2 years, or $25000, and frustratingly if the value of your holding ever drops below those levels it completely resets the timer, so I'd have to buy something like $2500 per company to be safe. I might start with Cogent and then in 3 years from now file a shareholder notice asking for Dave Schaeffer to be removed.
 
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Null said:
I'm not sure. I might invest in something for my own computers
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Considering you need to use them when keeping the site up during tumultuous times that makes sense. Gives an excuse to pull the trigger on a high quality seamless backup stream power supply too since you'll need to be able to do work on the site when there's no power as well.

Stocks are for boomers, stand by your principles and remain unbothered by the ups and downs of the green and red lines.
 
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Null said:
I'm not sure. I might invest in something for my own computers. I might save it as bonds for a rainy day.. I've also considered buying stock in ISPs so I can yell at them in investor reports, but that's a minimum of $2000 per company for 3 years, $15000 for 2 years, or $25000, and frustratingly if the value of your holding ever drops below those levels it completely resets the timer, so I'd have to buy something like $2500 per company to be safe. I might start with Cogent and then in 3 years from now file a shareholder notice asking for Dave Schaeffer to be removed.
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if you actually get the money, do another GSG so we can help you buy ISP stock solely for sneeding purposes

and do it sometime other than the weekend when i'm too busy to donate before the campaign ends
 
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AnOminous said:
Needs a picture of nool leering at the viewer like he's Jimbo Wales.
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This, or a picture of him swimming in his money vault like Scrooge MacDuck.

Congrats though, Josh - question about the infrastructure though, what does the layer 3/4 filtering for the site? Does the hosting provider handle a lot of that?
 
Null said:
I'm not sure. I might invest in something for my own computers. I might save it as bonds for a rainy day.. I've also considered buying stock in ISPs so I can yell at them in investor reports, but that's a minimum of $2000 per company for 3 years, $15000 for 2 years, or $25000, and frustratingly if the value of your holding ever drops below those levels it completely resets the timer, so I'd have to buy something like $2500 per company to be safe. I might start with Cogent and then in 3 years from now file a shareholder notice asking for Dave Schaeffer to be removed.
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Is there any point in funneling it into and using it under the USIPS? Or does that open another can of worms
 
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Null said:
The shopping list we're putting together is;
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If you're not doing it already, consider buying spares. Ebay is great and all but it's second hand so (imo) you should lean into it and buy spares for anything that's a single point of failure like the switch.. A spare PSU, couple sticks of ram & NICs plus one or two smaller, cheaper NVMEs won't cost much but can save the day when something inevitably breaks.
 
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skunt said:
If you're not doing it already, consider buying spares. Ebay is great and all but it's second hand so (imo) you should lean into it and buy spares for anything that's a single point of failure. A spare PSU, couple sticks of ram & NICs plus one or two smaller, cheaper NVMEs won't cost much but can save the day when something inevitably breaks.
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Are you implying he's not going to get 24x7 4 hour on-site support for those prices?
 
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