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How much would you charge to buy this machine, rent a space to put it in, pay for the utilities and rent related to it, set it up, and consequently maintain it
by didibus 7y ago
How much would you charge to buy this machine, rent a space to put it in, pay for the utilities and rent related to it, set it up, and consequently maintain it for half a decade? In addition to the principal of purchasing the hardware?
- vbezhenar 7y agoNot a lot. Installing Linux is trivial. Server hardware rarely breaks outside of disks which are trivial to replace as well.
- tatersolid 7y agoIn the real world: UPS,generators, cooling, BIOS/management card patching, 100 gigabit switches, optics, cabling, monitoring, tamper-proof logging, SEIM, cameras, physical security, software licenses. Plus maintenance on all that stuff. Oh and you need a DR site too, so double it. And staff up 4x for 24x7 operations and build an orchestration layer yourself. I’ve done the math in a lot of scenarios, including (especially) staff time. Running your own real data center doesn’t make long-term financial sense unless you are in the mid-hundreds of physical servers. Colo might make a bit more sense for some situations, but there’s a reason so much is being moved to cloud providers. The people doing it aren’t stupid.