On 8 May 2012 06:17, Anton Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hosting in your own building is frankly silly. The cost of AC cooling and > electricity alone is astronomical. Combined with other data center logistics > like owning your own IPs so you can do BGP with multi-homed internet, > and redundant power, it's pretty crazy for a small company.
Couldn't agree more. $employer has decided to "save" some beans by moving stuff (~6 racks of servers plus a rack of Netapp FASxxxx filer) out of our Equinix cage and into an $employer-owned datacentre... While there may indeed be a saving (they are moving it to one of their existing sites that already has ~50 fully populated racks in it) and there will certainly be a lot of consolidation (in virtualisation and storage layers especially) I don't think they're really comparing apples with apples. IMHO a more apt comparison would be apples and a 3-year-old's crayon art that depicts something you'd recognise as an apple if you were the kid's parent and feeling very generous... Equinix is far, far more serious in every aspect of their operation, and if $employer were to replicate that service, it would probably cost them more because they're operating at such a relatively small scale. I took a guided tour of the local EQX facility (SY1/SY2) last year. Only one word for it: _awesome_. Even though I'd already seen bits of it via $employer's hosting there. And that was not even their most modern facility, as they hadn't finished building their new Sydney datacentre (SY3) yet. John _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
