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>It never, ever means renting bare metal. Weird, in my company where we are doing the opposite migration (from traditional datacenter where we manage the physi
by mixdup 4y ago
>It never, ever means renting bare metal.
Weird, in my company where we are doing the opposite migration (from traditional datacenter where we manage the physical servers to Azure) this is exactly what we mean and say and how we describe it
We talk about "our datacenter" when we really mean racks of servers we rented from Insight, and we say "the cloud" when we refer to Azure. We've never actually had our own datacenter meaning a building we own and manage the entire physical plant of
Almost no one means it that way. Even Twitter is probably leasing colocation space in the "their own datacenter" category vs. GCP and AWS. The evidence is in the fact that Elon was able to just arbitrarily shut down an "entire datacenter". Or that 37signals was able to just arbitrarily move into "their own datacenter" on a whim
- johnklos 4y agoReferring to rented servers as colocated servers is flatly wrong, no matter how often people are incorrect about it. Sure, some providers put colocation under the same category as VMs and leased hardware, but that doesn't make them overlap. OTOH, referring to a datacenter of servers that you lease as a datacenter is one thing, but if you have zero hardware that you own in it, would it really be your datacenter, or would it be "the datacenter"? A datacenter could be anything from a set of IKEA shelves in a room with Internet and power to a fully built out fancy space with redundant power, fire suppression, a full Internet exchange, et cetera, so it's a bit gatekeepery to try to suggest that only huge companies would ever have their own datacenter or their own space with their own hardware in a datacenter.