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Let me be the first to dispell the misconception that one has to be the size of twitter or facebook to "build" a datacenter. There's enough competition that a
by mmt 16y ago
Let me be the first to dispell the misconception that one has to be the size of twitter or facebook to "build" a datacenter.
There's enough competition that a single cabinet with 4-7kW doesn't carry a substantial premium[1]. My most recent estimate of the break-even point is around $10k monthly, well within even a conservative definition of the startup phase.
[1] Over 2-8 cabinets or even a large cage.
- byoung2 16y agoFacebook announced plans earlier this year to build a custom data center in Prineville, Oregon, and Twitter announced last week that it plans to build one near Salt Lake City, Utah I was referring to breaking ground on your own datacenter, including managing the HVAC, security, power, backbone connections, insurance, and personnel. When you get to the point where that is more cost-effective than the cloud or a few racks in a colo, in my opinion, you're past the startup phase. What you mention could easily fit somewhere on my timeline, perhaps those couple of years when they see that they are steady at 20 EC2 instances and renting a cage at a colo edges out Amazon on price, if not on scalability.