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Upvoted. I would upvote a million times over if I could. So many developers seem to not realize just how expensive physical plant (and the people to administer
by antonovka 17y ago
Upvoted. I would upvote a million times over if I could. So many developers seem to not realize just how expensive physical plant (and the people to administer it) really is -- "hardware is cheap" fails to account for the facility costs involved in acquiring necessary space, power, cooling to run it -- often ahead of time.
Managing the IT team and a growing data center installation for a medium size business was one of the most enlightening experiences I've had as a developer writing software targeted at "internet-scale".
- gaius 17y agoA few years ago I did some consulting for a datacentre provider that you've almost certainly heard of who were giving serious consideration to buying a utility and operating their own power station, to get their power and cooling at cost. They'd already contemplated and rejected moving their entire operation to northern Alaska/Canada/wherever and just paying to plumb in the bandwidth (customers wanted to be able to get at their kit if they needed to).