Nice FFF ! I really like that you keep sharing "daily" news.
I work in IT infrastructure and I have few questions :
Why are you using specifically desktops PC for tests servers ?
If you need a lot of CPU power you could just use production server and do some virtualization. I'm sure you considered it, what are the reasons this solution wasn't selected ? Cost or complexity ?
And what about cloud instance dedicated to CPU usage ?
It just came as the path of least resistance. We upgraded all our devloper pcs a few years ago, so we had the old desktops just laying around. When the need came for a new server, it was easiest just to use the old desktops we had on hand.
Nice FFF ! I really like that you keep sharing "daily" news.
I work in IT infrastructure and I have few questions :
Why are you using specifically desktops PC for tests servers ?
If you need a lot of CPU power you could just use production server and do some virtualization. I'm sure you considered it, what are the reasons this solution wasn't selected ? Cost or complexity ?
And what about cloud instance dedicated to CPU usage ?
Cost also plays a role. Servers are generally a lot more expensive and we have no use for it's form factor or other enterprise features.
Single core performance is really important for factorio so expensive server CPUs with many cores would offer marginal or no improvement[citation needed]. (although the AMD Epyc seem nice).
Desktop gaming CPUs work well for running our... game..
It just came as the path of least resistance. We upgraded all our devloper pcs a few years ago, so we had the old desktops just laying around. When the need came for a new server, it was easiest just to use the old desktops we had on hand.
Also another reason, it is much easier and cheaper to maintain standard desktop parts.
Hardware availablility isn't amazing here in Czechia, so sticking to more mainstream CPUs and form factors makes it much easier to fix them when something goes awry.
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