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I do colocation as well, but if you don't have someone there to babysit your server, sometimes it can be nightmarish. It's nice to not worry about if a disk fa
by catch23 16y ago
I do colocation as well, but if you don't have someone there to babysit your server, sometimes it can be nightmarish. It's nice to not worry about if a disk fails and you need someone to swap out one of your raid spares and hopes he doesn't swap out the wrong drive bay.
With colocation companies, everyone is sending their own custom built servers to the data center so nobody knows the exact configuration per server. If a drive fails, or a memory chip goes bad, you need someone there that knows the layout of your hardware config to debug the issue. I have a bunch of servers at RippleWeb but I'm sure the guy there has to deal with 1U servers from Dell, Tyan, Supermicro, and all kinds of other manufacturers.
- schammy 16y agoAgreed. We do colocation for about 50 servers. Up front costs higher, long term costs MUCH lower - but man can it be a pain in the ass sometimes when there's a problem. :)
- chopsueyar 16y agoCan you provide some horror stories?
- catch23 16y agoHere's one from a friend of mine: a hard drive just failed in the middle of a raid array. An OCD worker there decides that instead of just swapping out the dead drive, he's going to move all the drives up one slot and put the new drive at the bottom of the raid array. So instead of having 1 drive failure, the disk controller now thinks there are 3 drive failures which ultimately lead to data loss and his removal from employment.