I don't know if I'm really defending the product. It seems odd to me that 4 bad reviews are enough for people to completely discount the product. Especially when its highly rated by reputable sources (like Tom's Hardware) and at least A grade on various tierlists.
For my specific case I'm close to around 800w in the max case with my current build; though it rarely hits that high point. In idle, it's much less though. I just wanted a bit of headroom for the future.
Now for the Platinum vs Gold, I've done a bit of chatgpt math here. The theory is it would save me about $10-$11 bucks a year in energy usage. I plan on running it for about the full 10 year warranty span if not longer. It'll be on 99% of the time. If that math is even ~half right, it pays for the difference for me. For Platinum, this is the cheapest on pcpartpicker:
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I find it hard to believe that the tier lists, review sites, amazon reviews, are all wrong based off ~4 bad walmart.com reviews.
Upvoted. This is something I learned rather recently. Sometimes it's more performant to slowly leak than it would be to free properly. Then take x amount of time to restart every n amount of time.
Another option if you need public access without something like tailscale would be to use ddns and a AAAA record. Something like https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient would help do that.
That way if the IP changes, you'd pick up on the change for your vanity url within a few minutes.. and can get https certs for that url as well.
Edit: I reread the OP. This doesn't help if clients need direct ipv4. Sorry about that.
Makes me wish they further prioritize the ability to move accounts from instance to instance. Things need to be thought of as best effort and not exactly a sure thing.
I have mostly random videos with things I've been interested in over the years. I've been doing a short a day for over a year now. The shorts are pretty random but surround things that happen on my life.
I love video and live production. I haven't been able to really do it since college and don't have time (or equipment) to do consistent long form content; but shorts are easy and fun enough to come up with.
Maybe? Not sure. I'm in the USA and we have em.