Very much depends on location within Canada. BC has an open policy of allowing suites not to code for example

Care to share more? Is this a daily driver or just a proof of concept thing? Genuinely interested

A trusty backup server with 8 SATA drive.

Canada as well

In Canada, electric block heaters for the engine are fairly common as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_heater . Similar concept to fire under the engine, but a bit more modern

This isn’t entirely true fwiw. That assumes a constant load on the systems. If you start running into a capacity crunch on a given system, your best case is scale horizontally or vertically using established procedures. But if you hit a limit there (vertical scaling limit, architectural limit) and actually need to refactor? Good luck!

https://xeiaso.net/ is equally great content in a similar style in my opinion. Different area of topics a bit, but I enjoy both very much

Oh, this looks very promising. Thanks for the recommendation!

The major cloud providers are designing their own servers, so we’re back at “growing your own food”.

McDonald's owns their own farms. They are big enough that controlling their supply chain is very important.

Facebook does not use cloud providers and designs their own servers.

The very large compute uses and cloud providers have incentives to grow their own food. Doing so can save them a few percent at scale. That savings is both not passed on to you and even if it was is not significant at small to medium scales.

They are not doing it because it provides an advantage to their customer but because it allow them to differentiate (and lock people).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleshort Might interest you!

Right, it really should say anchor cities and not capital IMO. Those may coincide sometimes, but not always.

More than just anchor cities. I live in a town of 60k. Cheapest homes less than fifty years old are all C$600K and sharply upward. There are many multi-million dollar properties. It is insanity.

Honestly PCI pass through would probably make it perfect for me. Pass through a usb controller or whatever other weird device you need