haha “curmudgeonous” was a word I had to lookup what it meant 
The gear I bought was AdLinks server type devkit. It includes a motherboard and a cpu Ampere Altra 128core. The spec is as described above.
I have been looking for a better alternative for colocation and found a small business located in the middle of Sweden (was trying to find the name of the business, will have to locate my notes 
) but their cost model was awesome. It included 1gbit bandwidth, not sure right now how much traffic(but I came to the conclusion its more then enough) and power. edit found the name - I think its inleed I have been in contact with and thinking about to moving to.
I must say that the AdLink gear so far works just great. Noticed that Asrock has a bundle available on newegg(i think thats the name) with motherboard and cpu(I believe it was a 32/64core not sure which) to a much better price then Adlink, but what Im aware of no 128core alternatives at the moment.
If you are curious about the Adlink-system Jeff Gerling has a extensive review of it on youtube.
Old-school =) I dont know. perhaps. For me its just economy and control of my working environment.
Still scared shitless I will end up with a monster bill from google cloud because of me f*ing up some budget setting for the services that I haven’t migrated yet.
