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You don't need to build your own datacenter unless your workload requires a datacenter's worth of hardware. Colocation is a feasible and popular option for hand
by 10000truths 3y ago
You don't need to build your own datacenter unless your workload requires a datacenter's worth of hardware. Colocation is a feasible and popular option for handling all of the hands-on stuff you mention. Ship the racks to a colo center, they'll install them for you. Ship them replacement peripherals, and the operators will hot-swap them for you. If you need redundancy, that's just a matter of sending your hardware to multiple places instead of one. Slightly more involved, but it's hardly rocket science.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoThat all takes time. With cloud, you can have a system up and running in literal seconds, which is very nice when you find out that you severely underestimated how much traffic you web app will get. But yeah, in the long run, colocation becomes significantly cheaper than cloud. You use AWS, and you'll find yourself paying $200/month for hardware you could buy once for $2,000. Sometimes I think people forgot colocation is an option that exists.
- scarface_74 3y agoDo you realize how few Pennie’s $200 a month is compared to $2000 for any decent size company?
- johnklos 3y agoNo, I'm afraid we can't do basic math. Nobody will ever know how long it takes for $200 a month to end up costing more than a single outlay of $2000.
- scarface_74 3y agoI’m saying that little savings is a rounding error to any business of any size
- ricardobeat 3y agoHe is giving an example for a single server. You can * 100 both numbers if you want.
- pleoxy 3y agoPurely in hardware costs. More like $200/mo payment can be replaced by $100-130 in hardware. For $600 I can get hardware that outperforms a $1200/mo ec2. Easy.