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You can obviously buy servers from HP or Dell. I have about 80 in a colo datacentre. Power, air-conditioning, security etc isn't my problem. That's what we pay
by Symbiote 4y ago
You can obviously buy servers from HP or Dell. I have about 80 in a colo datacentre.
Power, air-conditioning, security etc isn't my problem. That's what we pay the colo for.
I go there about once a year to install new servers, and about once at some other point in the year to replace a failed disk. I've taken various developers who are interested each time, so if I'm out of town there are several people who can cover, plus the colo staff.
You can also pay for people to do this routine work.
And then there's still the option of renting managed servers, so that company handles all the hardware.
- topicseed 4y agoTo be fair, this sounds a lot of to do items that I don't want to do.
- Symbiote 4y agoI think it's nice to have a completely different type of work a couple of days per year. I've found there's generally developers who are into building custom gaming PCs or Raspberry Pis or whatever who are interested to see the servers and lend a hand installing new ones.
- topicseed 4y agoI actually am into hacking at home but I'd definitely not play around with my business' production environment. Wouldn't know where to start if sh* hits the fan.
- senttoschool 4y agoNot sure why you're being downvoted. But I love building PCs too. There's no way I'd want to put together my company's server hardware though even though the basics are the same. I do not want to be on call 24/7.
- OccamsMirror 4y agoHow are the basics the same? No one builds their own server.
- sshine 4y agoThat's why managed servers exist. You can't get much more time efficient than data centre operators handling hardware.