He doesn't know what he is talking about; in that every company I know of, will have a build-vs-buy discussion before blindly going ahead and building their own DC.
There are some interesting numbers in there, but it does seem a little like a plug for one of the author's reports. The message seems to be that when buying a server, consider the running and housing costs when calculating the TCO. Just like you should with a car...
wow. Uh, first, a 300W server is moderately heavy. I run core2quad boxes w/8G ram and they run about 120W. I soppose if you had dual quad core xeons, 300W isn't unheard of, but that's a beefy server. power(and cooling) in a datacenter in the bay area costs me around $400/month for 2000W (1500W usable if you are smart) so that is $400/month or $4800/year for 5 300W servers, or $960/year/box (for a massive 300W box.)
so I'm not seeing where he's getting $8000... Well, I guess it's more expensive to build a datacenter than to rent, I guess? then why not rent?
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 24.5 ms ] threadso I'm not seeing where he's getting $8000... Well, I guess it's more expensive to build a datacenter than to rent, I guess? then why not rent?