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We don't use AWS/etc, we have 3 colo spaces in various locations around the country. We've never visited two of them; a small fee gets your equipment racked and
by btgeekboy 13y ago
We don't use AWS/etc, we have 3 colo spaces in various locations around the country. We've never visited two of them; a small fee gets your equipment racked and connected, and remote hands does the rest as needed. The local one we visit maybe 3 times a year, usually to install new equipment.
The overhead of dealing with hardware, especially for applications that don't have massive exponential growth, is really not as big of a deal as it sounds.
- spongle 13y agoIndeed. We have 6x 42U racks across three datacentres in the UK packed with network hardware, servers, san and other kit. Stuff doesn't really go wrong that often. Our ops guys probably go there once a quarter. Most of the time, you can manage it remotely. The only main failure point appears to be disks but you can just mail them to the DC and get them to stick it in for a small fee.