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Nothing is black or white. From my past experience, when you start to have services that are i/o intensive, the colocation is a good option especially that you
by adulau 16y ago
Nothing is black or white. From my past experience, when you start to have services that are i/o intensive, the colocation is a good option especially that you can easily control or tweak the underlying hardware. On the other hand, if you start with a small scale service and you don't have a large distributed datastore "cloud hosting" is often simpler and cost effective.
- phlux 16y agoThis is something I have been wondering about; it would be good to be able to have space in a cloud DC - where you can have a rack or ten of your own equipment as well. Thus being able to leverage both. I don't know if it is offered at all by any of the cloud vendors, but it would be good to be able to install specialty machines/disk into the facility but still leverage all other aspects of the cloud provider.
- justincormack 16y agoRackspace can offer something pretty close to that as they do cloud and colo.
- MartinCron 16y agoYou can mix "cloud" + "non-cloud" stuff at SoftLayer. That's part of my startup's growth/emergency scalability plan.
- St-Clock 16y agoI believe github is doing exactly this "Powered by the Dedicated Servers and Cloud Computing of Rackspace Hosting®"