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Maybe datacenter companies could offer bare-metal cloud hosting. They rent out the servers and keep the hardware physically working, your devops team handles al

Maybe datacenter companies could offer bare-metal cloud hosting. They rent out the servers and keep the hardware physically working, your devops team handles all the software aspects.

megaman821 15y ago
Rackspace offers this but it is about 4x more expensive than their cloud offerings, but they also offer you the option to have a mix of hosted and cloud.
gtuhl 15y ago
Softlayer offers this as well. You can spec out a box however you want up to pretty exotic configurations, get billed monthly, and can SSH into them in 3-4 hours. It is expensive, but not as expensive as something like heroku or aws for equivalent cores/RAM, and you get real hard drives.
- stoph 15y ago
  We are using Softlayer and we found that on our server we were not bottlenecked by memory, CPU or disk I/O. However, we were bottlenecked by our bandwidth which sat around 5 MB/s. Perhaps we could upgrade to a higher-throughput network card or something (I don't maintain our servers), but we ended up just offloading static files to a CDN instead.
  - ericd 15y ago
    Hm, that seems strange. The default SL server configs don't have 1 gigabit cards, those cost 10-20/mo more - perhaps that's why?
  - gtuhl 15y ago
    That does seem odd. I'd file a ticket and see what they have to say about it. In certain datacenters (think might be dallas05?) you can even get a 10Gbps uplink brought to a box so they have pretty big pipes available.
    - nivertech 15y ago
      Where can I get dedicated or cloud servers with one or multiple 10GbE NICs?
      - gtuhl 15y ago
        I just poked around with some of our servers to verify. In Softlayer's Dallas facility (selected when ordering a server) 10 Gbps is an option. The maximum amount of bandwidth available is 20TB. Sometimes you can get more options by contacting their sales people directly instead of using the shopping cart.

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Maybe datacenter companies could offer bare-metal cloud hosting. They rent out the servers and keep the hardware physically working, your devops team handles al

by LeafStorm 15y ago

Maybe datacenter companies could offer bare-metal cloud hosting. They rent out the servers and keep the hardware physically working, your devops team handles all the software aspects.

megaman821 15y ago
Rackspace offers this but it is about 4x more expensive than their cloud offerings, but they also offer you the option to have a mix of hosted and cloud.
gtuhl 15y ago
Softlayer offers this as well. You can spec out a box however you want up to pretty exotic configurations, get billed monthly, and can SSH into them in 3-4 hours. It is expensive, but not as expensive as something like heroku or aws for equivalent cores/RAM, and you get real hard drives.
- stoph 15y ago
  We are using Softlayer and we found that on our server we were not bottlenecked by memory, CPU or disk I/O. However, we were bottlenecked by our bandwidth which sat around 5 MB/s. Perhaps we could upgrade to a higher-throughput network card or something (I don't maintain our servers), but we ended up just offloading static files to a CDN instead.
  - ericd 15y ago
    Hm, that seems strange. The default SL server configs don't have 1 gigabit cards, those cost 10-20/mo more - perhaps that's why?
  - gtuhl 15y ago
    That does seem odd. I'd file a ticket and see what they have to say about it. In certain datacenters (think might be dallas05?) you can even get a 10Gbps uplink brought to a box so they have pretty big pipes available.
    - nivertech 15y ago
      Where can I get dedicated or cloud servers with one or multiple 10GbE NICs?
      - gtuhl 15y ago
        I just poked around with some of our servers to verify. In Softlayer's Dallas facility (selected when ordering a server) 10 Gbps is an option. The maximum amount of bandwidth available is 20TB. Sometimes you can get more options by contacting their sales people directly instead of using the shopping cart.