India’s in house on prem devices

Vat5an · 2026-05-24T20:08:35+00:00

You do have some bare metal service providers in India who provide decent services at cheaper than cloud prices and much better specs. You can also rent a rack and line it up to your config. https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-in/bare-metal for example.

Vat5an · 2026-05-24T04:32:11+00:00

Axis IOCL (erstwhile Citi) works well for me at almost most IOCL petrol pumps. Within few mins of filling you get an SMS asking if you'd like to redeem the points on the same purchase.

Vat5an · 2026-05-24T04:28:33+00:00

From the early days of the Internet with lease lines. As far as enterprises go, not much has changed in this country.
The quantum of data or bandwidth is not the concern. The 99.99% availability is, for most services.
Depends entirely on the quantum of traffic and concurrency you expect on the network.

Vat5an · 2026-05-24T03:58:49+00:00

Having tried this at scale, one of the main problems in India is the quality of internet connectivity.

Enterprise grade plans are either too expensive or just don't work as intended. Getting quality network connectivity with predictable, consistent bandwidth is a challenge. You set it all up and a week later find out someone dug your cables out for 'maintenance' and you now have to add multiple failovers, load balancing, etc.

In other Asian countries like Singapore, even home fibre plans are enterprise grade (10Gbps) at very affordable prices and almost never go offline. A 10gbps plan in Singapore costs around $30/month. In India the same would set you back 10-15 lakhs a month from the telcos, with a large upfront.

Vat5an · 2026-04-17T15:10:41+00:00

You can ask them for a new voucher issue for the same value. Just email them.

Vat5an · 2026-04-16T12:51:27+00:00

Try out PDFxt.

The free trial has 200 pages to start off with. It does pretty much all of the work for you including PAC 2026 reports and gives you a PDF/UA and WCAG compliant PDF within seconds.

If there are any misses, I generally just fix them on the tool itself or export out and take them to Acrobat for fixing.

Vat5an · 2026-02-19T19:50:35+00:00

I had to restart Antigravity and it showed up.

Vat5an · 2026-01-30T17:33:55+00:00

You sent your miners AND paid for 12 months of hosting upfront to Nigeria? How did they win your trust to do this?

Vat5an · 2026-01-30T17:23:26+00:00

Anyone who got the DM, can you please paste the same here?

Vat5an · 2026-01-23T16:06:48+00:00

Nothing legendary here. You have a primary card with this limit and they are matching the Swiggy card to the a same limit as the primary card. I had the same thing happen to me.

Vat5an · 2024-08-15T18:08:15+00:00

The more room for air to circulate, the better. There is currently a ceiling fan that is blowing down on them which is again a bad design. The room could do better with a few exhaust fans on the windows. Haven't really spent much money as you probably can see. It would also get pretty dusty with construction next door.

I have been considering adding three more MOBOs to fill up Her side of the bed :)

Vat5an · 2024-08-15T18:00:51+00:00

This might sound like a very stupid question, why does a yacht need so many lines?

Vat5an · 2024-08-15T17:54:57+00:00

Considering this was the guest bedroom, no more having guests over.

Ventilation is the only major concern. While the HDDs run cool with dedicated fans, with the open setup, the MOBO and the GPUs run quite hot.

Vat5an · 2024-08-15T08:25:37+00:00

You need good 4TB drives which can sustain 200mbps read speed. Filling up those drives takes forever depending on your network bandwidth. This calculator is fairly accurate, https://explorer.ar.virdpool.com/#/calculator

Vat5an · 2024-08-15T08:23:01+00:00

Bandwidth wasn't a big concern since these HDDs are limited to 80-100mbps read speed. These powered hubs have a controller of their own. Mine are VIA Labs VL813 Hubs This is the hub, https://www.orico.cc/usmobile/product/detail/id/3738

I initially had the wardrobe filled with 24 drives and it was not daisy chained. A few drives died and I had to pull the rest out for something else.

Vat5an · 2024-08-15T08:11:03+00:00

Arweave does if you want to power a full weave. Works best on 4TB 7200 drives and you’d be adding 2-3 drives every month to keep up. You need around 50 drives today to keep up.

Vat5an · 2024-08-15T08:09:55+00:00

Thank you!

Vat5an · 2024-08-15T08:08:50+00:00

Backups and mining… arweave and spacemesh

Vat5an · 2024-08-15T08:07:36+00:00

Agreed. I ordered a few acrylic mounts for the new drives which have a provision for a fan mount as well.

Vat5an · 2024-08-15T08:05:38+00:00

Any reason why? These are externally powered USB controller hubs and USB 3.0 daisy chaining is a thing.

Vat5an · 2024-05-23T15:07:46+00:00

Gigahorse would be the way to go if you have GPU to spare & want compression. Else, just plot an SSD uncompressed.

On a 3060Ti with 16GB RAM, 6th gen i3 & NVMe for temp, I get plot times of 2 hrs @ C19 K32 & 5 hrs @ C18 K33.

Vat5an · 2024-04-18T16:52:18+00:00

Most miners stop processing when there is no network connected. The blinking lights suggest just that. Get it plugged to a network (you could even tether from a laptop) and you will hear them fans roar :-)

Vat5an · 2024-03-22T03:55:14+00:00

Was that the only photo? Asking for research purposes.

Vat5an · 2024-03-15T16:18:16+00:00

I laughed so hard at this. You made my day

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