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A real datacenter is almost certainly Better Than You at reliability. Consider: - Redundant fiber connections to multiple independent ISPs - Battery backup an
by superuser2 13y ago
A real datacenter is almost certainly Better Than You at reliability. Consider:
- Redundant fiber connections to multiple independent ISPs
- Battery backup and generator failover
- Redundant HVAC
- Waterless fire suppression
- 24x7 staff presence
- Security systems and personnel
These are all economies of scale. If you're just running a couple of racks you're either throwing away money by paying for all this or making yourself irresponsibly vulnerable to things that can and will go wrong.
- bane 13y agoYou just described that last 3 server rooms I ever worked in. This stuff isn't all that hard. I'm really surprised at the lack of knowhow here on HN. If people don't have businesses in the right kind of office buildings you can always just colo your own hardware and pay power/bandwidth and still save money over AWS. > If you're just running a couple of racks you're either throwing away money by paying for all this.. You're paying for all of it anyways. Especially if you colocate, and then you're paying for their costs plus whatever they charge on top of that. Money you pay into somebody else's profits, that you can self-service is literally throwing away money. It sounds like the OP built their own hardware, but colos it all in a datacenter. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7155165 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7155165
- superuser2 13y agoThe issue is primarily cost. This stuff costs more per server at small scale. Maybe some colocation hosts are running such a large margin that they cost savings is thrown away, but others aren't. Colocation is a great solution (in fact, the solution) to the scale issue.