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by saryant 10y ago
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- chrissnell 10y agoThis is rapidly changing. When I took over technical ops at my employer, we were 100% public cloud. I quickly moved us to private managed cloud and quadruped our capacity for 20% less spend. Now I'm in the process of preparing us to move to colocation, where I'm certain that I can save another 40-50% over three years. What's made this possible is technologies like CoreOS, Kubernetes, and Ceph. We are working on automating the bare metal network management pieces but I am confident that we will soon have an environment that can function in colo without onsite staff. If we automate throughly and pre-cable racks, adding capacity is as simple as using a colo provider's remote hands service to rack and stack new hardware every quarter or so.
- learningman 10y agoSerious question, what are you doing better compared to AWS? Efficiency wise, what can't you offer your own cloud services and cash in on 40-50% markup?
- toomuchtodo 10y agoRunning a single tenant cloud system is not the same as a multi tenant cloud system.
- ec109685 10y agoWhat happens if that Colo goes down?
- toomuchtodo 10y agoYou wait for it to come back, just like when us-east-1 is having problems every few weeks.
- chrissnell 10y agoThis problem is no different in colo as it is in public cloud. If your business requires site redundancy, you build this capability into your app and stack and run a second warm footprint somewhere else.
- la6470 10y agoWell it depends looks like your company was ok with spending the ongoing opex of engineering salaries for essentially building or attempting to build an infrastructure that is kind of functionally similar to AWS. As a businessman this does not make much sense when computing is today really an utility.
- jerkstate 10y agoWhat kind of discount are you talking? I have heard about the negotiation of a quite large deal in the high single to low double digit millions committed annually - and the discounts were basically like a sales tax holiday. Maybe the negotiator just wasn't doing a very good job, but it wasn't the kind of discount I would have expected to see for such a large commitment either.