Comment by hrimfaxi
13 hours ago
Depending on your regulatory environment, it can be cost-effective to not have to maintain your own data center with 24/7 security response, environmental monitoring, fire suppression systems, etc. (of course, the majority of businesses are probably not interested in things like SOC 2)
This argument comes up a lot, but it feels a bit silly to me. If you want a beefy server you start out with renting one. $150/month will give you a server with 24 core Xeon and 256GB of RAM, in a data center with everything you mentined plus a 24/7 hands-on technician you can book. Preferably rent two servers, because reliablity. Once you outgrow renting servers you start renting rack space in a certified data center with all the same amenities. Once you outgrow that you start renting entire racks, then rows of racks or small rooms inside the DC. Then you start renting portions of the DC. Once you have outgrown that you have to seriously worry about maintaining your own data center. But at that point you have so much scale that this will be the least of your worries
> This argument comes up a lot, but it feels a bit silly to me. If you want a beefy server you start out with renting one. $150/month will give you a server with 24 core Xeon and 256GB of RAM, in a data center with everything you mentined plus a 24/7 hands-on technician you can book.
What's the bandwidth and where can I rent one of these??
Hetzner [1]. Bandwidth is 1 GBit/s. You can also get 10 GBit/s, that's hidden away a bit instead of being mentioned on the order page [2]
1: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ex
2: https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/network/10g-...
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https://us.ovhcloud.com/bare-metal/prices/?display=list
also pretty sure 24 cores is like 48 cloud “cores” which are usually just hyper threads right?
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I'm a lot less concerned about CPU and ram and a lot more concerned about replicated object storage (across data centers). High end GPUs are also pretty important.
The only companies directly dealing with that type of stuff are the ones already at such a scale where they need to actually build their own data centers. Everyone else is just renting space somewhere that already takes care of those things and you just need to review their ISO/SOC reports.
This kind of argument comes from the cloud provider marketing playbook, not reality.
This is handled by colo.