{"slug": "show-hn-amd-epyc-windows-developer-rigs-in-the-uk-eu-in-10-minutes", "title": "Show HN: AMD EPYC Windows developer rigs in the UK/EU in ~10 minutes", "summary": "Developer Mick launched Whitehirst, an early-access service that provisions ephemeral Windows Server 2022 developer workstations on AMD EPYC hardware in UK/EU datacenters in about 10 minutes, priced at £12 for 8 hours or £25 for 24 hours. Each rig includes 8 AMD EPYC vCPUs, 32GB ECC RAM, 200GB NVMe storage and a 2Gbps network interface, preconfigured with Visual Studio 2026, VS Code, Docker CE, Git, Rust, NVM and Tailscale, with telemetry and Copilot components stripped out. Whitehirst is limiting access to a handful of applicants via a contact form while it irons out bugs in early access.", "body_md": "Hey HN, I wanted to show you something I built. I actually built it last year but the prices of VPS instances went to the moon and I shelved it until recently. It's called Whitehirst (I had the .com domain lying around, hence the name!)\n\nYou can spin up a Sovereign UK/EU Windows Workstation in ~10 minutes that's fully configured with all the dev tools you'll need like Visual Studio 2026, VS Code, Docker CE, Git, Rust, NVM, Tailscale and more. It's a custom Windows Server 2022 rig that removes all the bloat, telemetry and Copilot stuff. I've spent an obscene length of time perfecting the build so it runs incredibly fast.\n\nYou can spin up a rig for 8 or 24 hours with zero risk of a surprise cloud bill as every workstation is strictly ephemeral and automatically self-destructs when time's up (prices are £12 for 8 hours or £25 for 24 hours). You can extend your time if you wish. I'm only offering a single spec at the moment: 8 AMD EPYC vCPUs, 32GB ECC RAM, 200GB NVMe storage and a 2Gbps nic - I intend to offer other specs later on.\n\nIf you'd like to try it, head to [https://whitehirst.com](https://whitehirst.com) and fill out the contact form and I'll pick a handful to get started with. I'm going to keep the numbers small for now so that I can make sure it all works and I can iron out the bugs since it's still in early-access.\n\nAnyway, let me know what you think.\n\nTa\n\nMick\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256259](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256259)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-amd-epyc-windows-developer-rigs-in-the-uk-eu-in-10-minutes", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256259", "published_at": "2026-10-27 08:53:52+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-27 09:11:58.176929+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Whitehirst", "AMD", "EPYC", "Windows Server 2022", "Visual Studio 2026", "Docker", "Tailscale", "Mick"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-amd-epyc-windows-developer-rigs-in-the-uk-eu-in-10-minutes", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-amd-epyc-windows-developer-rigs-in-the-uk-eu-in-10-minutes.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-amd-epyc-windows-developer-rigs-in-the-uk-eu-in-10-minutes.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-amd-epyc-windows-developer-rigs-in-the-uk-eu-in-10-minutes.jsonld"}}