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You wouldn't run your own datacenter, you would colocate. Even if that's not possible, you can still rent servers for significantly cheaper than cloud offerings
by ATsch 6y ago
You wouldn't run your own datacenter, you would colocate. Even if that's not possible, you can still rent servers for significantly cheaper than cloud offerings.
- Accujack 6y agoWow... really a first world perspective here.
- troupe 6y agoI believe you are saying that some countries don't have data centers where you can co-locate. Most of the places where AWS has a datacenter have other datacenter companies that offer co-location.
- kuschku 6y agoIf you can rent an AWS server, you can also rent a Hetzner server, or put some servers in a Hetzner DC.
- blaser-waffle 6y agoThe you co-locate to the first world. Or somewhere that can get a data center built with resources that you trust. I ran data centers for a living in Northern VA and had all sorts of international clients. Egyptian schools who rented servers, Brazilian Protestant ministries who shipped servers to us, etc. There were some decent data centers in Mumbai we had to get VPNs built for, and we had a least one legit client in Lagos, Nigeria.
- irishcoffee 6y agoSo its true [0] [0] https://pics.me.me/me-i-prefer-mangoes-to-oranges-random-person-so-basically-61341509.png https://pics.me.me/me-i-prefer-mangoes-to-oranges-random-per...
- iajrz 6y ago3rd world perspective: They're not far off from the mark. You'd want to co-locate with ISP who already has infrastructure for continuous services through blackouts et al, or you could have a datacenter if it's small-ish, because you already have some infrastructure to keep operating during blackouts.
- ATsch 6y agoI think you'll struggle to find any place without a few datacenters nearby, at least in a neighboring country. Of course it's going to be a bit further away if you're in central Africa. Even then, you can colocate in a datacenter anywhere you want, have equipment delivered there and pay remote hands to install it for you for a very reasonable fee. Of course this doesn't make sense if you just want a small webserver, but that's not who we are talking about here.
- Hnrobert42 6y agoI support your comment.