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We've been looking at the logistics of co-location. Cloud Prices, even at Digital Ocean and Linode, are pricey! The problem is finding anyone with experience d
by exabrial 4y ago
We've been looking at the logistics of co-location. Cloud Prices, even at Digital Ocean and Linode, are pricey!
The problem is finding anyone with experience doing this. It's a skillset that's sorta been lost.
- jjeaff 4y agoAre you also comparing simply renting dedicated servers? Unless you need very specialized hardware or just huge amounts of hardware, that seems to make a lot more sense for most people.
- jacooper 4y agoCheck out more affordable cloud providers like hetzner or OVH.
- balex 4y agoOP here. And to top it off, it seems like it's all undocumented know-how. You have to be a practitioner to pick it up. We find that the tools are focused on all sorts of inventory (DCIM) and provisioning. Processes are homegrown based on whatever ticketing system you have in place. That's what we're looking to change. So far it feels like the colo side aren't hyped around introducing tools to automate things. It's like their jobs are at risk. And the customer side is bent on building their own tooling from scratch. We have found some early adopters, but they're hard to come by. Even when we can quantity savings in money and time to market. Not to mention engineering frustration. Would love to have a conversation around this!
- exabrial 4y agoYep. I'm "smart enough" to know that it's _got to be_ harder than it looks: Buy servers, rack them, run stuff. Obviously there's a _whole world_ of hidden logistics here that could go _terribly_ wrong. I'm "dumb enough" to not know what those real world things are.