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I looked around for reasonable datacenter colo in the triad and triangle and didn't get anything promising. Where are you physically hosting your infra? Curiou

by leetrout 10mo ago

I looked around for reasonable datacenter colo in the triad and triangle and didn't get anything promising. Where are you physically hosting your infra? Curious if you are having to buy bandwidth as well. Some of the Midwest data centers include over 30TB of bandwidth in the rack rentals. And if you are willing to go into the details curious how you are handling bare metal provisioning. MaaS or home grown tooling? Or are you just installing proxmox by hand?

Onavo 10mo ago
Why would they need to buy bandwidth? Many places would offer you a gigabit pipe directly.
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- leetrout 10mo ago
  Sure, some places charge to upgrade. Some places are metered. 100Mbps is 33TB / mo. 1Gbps is 330 TB / mo. I'm curious what they have and how they prevent saturation from a client or they just pass on networks managed by the DC.
  - leetrout 10mo ago
    Replying to myself since OP shared elsewhere they are using Tier. $950.00/month for 100TB @ 1Gbps 20A @ 208V 61 Usable IPv4 or free BGP And half rack is $650 / mo for 30TB @ 1Gbps (so basically the full month at 1/10th full pipe). https://www.tier.net/colocation https://www.tier.net/colocation
- re-thc 10mo ago
  > Many places would offer you a gigabit pipe directly. i.e. you don't have redundancy? A gigabit is nothing these days sadly. You can get a surge in traffic (DDoS or not) and be stuck quite quickly. You always need extra capacity to deal with issues unforeseen and that adds to the cost.
nurettin 10mo ago
> left my job earlier this year They are probably reselling from hetzner/vultr
- ilaksh 10mo ago
  The Hetzner US server on the east coast is in Virginia not North Carolina. Which actually isn't that far. But I don't think they could fake it if they say the servers are in NC.
- bojangleslover 10mo ago
  We own all our own hardware but we rent from a colocation provider in Charlotte. They provide the backed-up power and network + the IP block, we do literally everything else. We used to be in my house and I was considering installing my own generator (actually not that expensive) but we got a great deal on colocation, shout out Ivan Teoh at Tier.net!
  - nurettin 10mo ago
    That's a surprising amount of investment, well done and godspeed.
bojangleslover 10mo ago
We don't have on-demand API-based bare metal provisioning right now. Sorry if that is misleading on the website. Our bare metal is OTC right now (over the counter). For the rest of our provisioning (VM and container) I wrote the software myself. It's based on a Django app called the "master" that hosts the console and keeps track of who has rented what etc + a bunch of "host" nodes that listen for instructions from the "master". Pure python, the only thing that's in Go is the CLI. I looked into Proxmox but ultimately decided I wanted full control. ZFS storage from Proxmox is something I do sometimes wish we had — going to offer s3-compatible storage very soon but I know Proxmox does ZFS out of the box really well.
- count 10mo ago
  How do you sanitize hardware between workloads?

Onavo 10mo ago

Why would they need to buy bandwidth? Many places would offer you a gigabit pipe directly.

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leetrout 10mo ago
Sure, some places charge to upgrade. Some places are metered. 100Mbps is 33TB / mo. 1Gbps is 330 TB / mo. I'm curious what they have and how they prevent saturation from a client or they just pass on networks managed by the DC.
- leetrout 10mo ago
  Replying to myself since OP shared elsewhere they are using Tier. $950.00/month for 100TB @ 1Gbps 20A @ 208V 61 Usable IPv4 or free BGP And half rack is $650 / mo for 30TB @ 1Gbps (so basically the full month at 1/10th full pipe). https://www.tier.net/colocation https://www.tier.net/colocation
re-thc 10mo ago
> Many places would offer you a gigabit pipe directly. i.e. you don't have redundancy? A gigabit is nothing these days sadly. You can get a surge in traffic (DDoS or not) and be stuck quite quickly. You always need extra capacity to deal with issues unforeseen and that adds to the cost.

nurettin 10mo ago

> left my job earlier this year They are probably reselling from hetzner/vultr

ilaksh 10mo ago
The Hetzner US server on the east coast is in Virginia not North Carolina. Which actually isn't that far. But I don't think they could fake it if they say the servers are in NC.
bojangleslover 10mo ago
We own all our own hardware but we rent from a colocation provider in Charlotte. They provide the backed-up power and network + the IP block, we do literally everything else. We used to be in my house and I was considering installing my own generator (actually not that expensive) but we got a great deal on colocation, shout out Ivan Teoh at Tier.net!
- nurettin 10mo ago
  That's a surprising amount of investment, well done and godspeed.

bojangleslover 10mo ago

We don't have on-demand API-based bare metal provisioning right now. Sorry if that is misleading on the website. Our bare metal is OTC right now (over the counter). For the rest of our provisioning (VM and container) I wrote the software myself. It's based on a Django app called the "master" that hosts the console and keeps track of who has rented what etc + a bunch of "host" nodes that listen for instructions from the "master". Pure python, the only thing that's in Go is the CLI. I looked into Proxmox but ultimately decided I wanted full control. ZFS storage from Proxmox is something I do sometimes wish we had — going to offer s3-compatible storage very soon but I know Proxmox does ZFS out of the box really well.

count 10mo ago
How do you sanitize hardware between workloads?