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We own our own servers but rent space in a data center. Has increased our CPU/ram exponentially, increased our devops work, increased our risk and time spent o

We own our own servers but rent space in a data center. Has increased our CPU/ram exponentially, increased our devops work, increased our risk and time spent on risk mitigation. And decreased our cost over Linode and AWS by an order of magnitude..! Should I select collocated or in house? The former seems closest but unsure... :). We're happy though!

joshmn 12y ago
That'd be colocated, yeah.
threeseed 12y ago
Dedicated is a nice step in between a VPS and collocation of your own servers. Plus I had servers near US East that had 10ms or so ping time to MongoHQ which is AWS. So use dedicated for your web/app servers (which are easier to manage) and AWS solutions for your database, search, analytics and monitoring.
eddieroger 12y ago
Sounds like the definition of colocation to me. I'd take "in-house" to mean you have dedicated Internet and UPS on premises.
wasd 12y ago
I've never managed devops so that is surprising to me. I thought that given the economies of scale, AWS would be cheaper than collocated just because of staffing. How many people do you have employed for devops?
- adanto6840 12y ago
  <=1 full-time employee. Our scale isn't huge either, we were running <= 20 decent-sized virtual servers on Linode & AWS previously. We've definitely been very pleasantly surprised, for sure. The ability to add capacity at very low recurring cost is unbeatable. The communities & OSS that exist now also help to go a pretty solid distance these days -- and we've yet to have any kind of notable issues or catastrophes, though we do have aggressive & tested backup/restore plans in place. Fingers do remain crossed slightly more-so than they used to when we didn't own the hardware, though. ;-)
- toomuchtodo 12y ago
  AWS is almost never cheaper than colocation; you're paying a premium to scale to infinity on a dime. /DevOps Engineer who manages both AWS and colo'd infrastructure

joshmn 12y ago

That'd be colocated, yeah.

threeseed 12y ago

Dedicated is a nice step in between a VPS and collocation of your own servers. Plus I had servers near US East that had 10ms or so ping time to MongoHQ which is AWS. So use dedicated for your web/app servers (which are easier to manage) and AWS solutions for your database, search, analytics and monitoring.

eddieroger 12y ago

Sounds like the definition of colocation to me. I'd take "in-house" to mean you have dedicated Internet and UPS on premises.

wasd 12y ago

I've never managed devops so that is surprising to me. I thought that given the economies of scale, AWS would be cheaper than collocated just because of staffing. How many people do you have employed for devops?

adanto6840 12y ago
<=1 full-time employee. Our scale isn't huge either, we were running <= 20 decent-sized virtual servers on Linode & AWS previously. We've definitely been very pleasantly surprised, for sure. The ability to add capacity at very low recurring cost is unbeatable. The communities & OSS that exist now also help to go a pretty solid distance these days -- and we've yet to have any kind of notable issues or catastrophes, though we do have aggressive & tested backup/restore plans in place. Fingers do remain crossed slightly more-so than they used to when we didn't own the hardware, though. ;-)
toomuchtodo 12y ago
AWS is almost never cheaper than colocation; you're paying a premium to scale to infinity on a dime. /DevOps Engineer who manages both AWS and colo'd infrastructure