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I know this might seem like a strange answer, but.... IRC channels on private torrent trackers. Many of the people on these sites actively have large and complex setups running. There often is a lot of talk about hardware for servers and networking in those IRC channels. Or at least there is on the trackers I am on.
I know that's not necessarily a helpful answer to anyone not already in the private torrent tracker community, since its often quite a task to get involved if you aren't already. However, it's one that I have had great success with, personally. To anyone who already is on a private torrent tracker, if you haven't checked out the IRC, give it a shot and see.
Oh and don't forget you can self-host The Lounge for a self-hosted web-based IRC client.
I kind of miss the message board era of the internet. Those niche communities could be really useful.
I'm still using public trackers. Maybe after I get my network setup I'll invest some time into finding a good private tracker or two to join.
The problem is people don't want a focused community. They want a broad community so when they have a question they can ask and find an expert - but not so broad that the noise means they can't follow anything. We do focused communities because the world (or even internet) has too many people and so the noise of all the discussions is too much. However that isn't what we want.
Private trackers are like the Matrix's "zion". When civilization collapses into a dystopian surveillance capitalism hellscape and the AIs and fascist governments take over the net, the last free humans will be hiding in private tracker communities, sharing freely and building a resistance. Will we have mechs with gatling guns? I don't know, all I can say is I hope so because it looks like we're going to need it.
You're using public trackers, so you're probably not in the habit of being a seeder. With private trackers, you HAVE to seed. Deleting a torrent from your client once it's finished is most certainly a habit you will have to break once you finally do get into some private trackers.