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Are you buying your own hardware and colocating, or leasing hardware? If the latter, which provider(s) are you using?
by mwcampbell 11y ago
Are you buying your own hardware and colocating, or leasing hardware? If the latter, which provider(s) are you using?
- fapjacks 11y agoWe are leasing hardware, and we are leasing a lot of OVH (in addition to a number of smaller providers). OVH does a good job, and if you build your infrastructure to load-balance around failure (which does not happen often), you'll hardly notice it. Often we get an email from OVH telling us that support techs have been automatically dispatched to a node which we hadn't even alerted about yet. Docker is basically a miracle drug for this kind of thing. Our hardware costs are less than half of what they were with EC2. Huge savings.
- fapjacks 11y agoHeh, and here "often" means "often during failures". ;)