So you want to build your own data center

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jonatron ◴[17 Jan 25 22:24 UTC] No.42743915[source]▶

Why would you call colocation "building your own data center"? You could call it "colocation" or "renting space in a data center". What are you building? You're racking. Can you say what you mean?

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macintux ◴[17 Jan 25 22:36 UTC] No.42743999[source]▶

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Dealing with power at that scale, arranging your own ISPs, seems a bit beyond your normal colocation project, but I haven’t bee in the data center space in a very long time.

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1. latchkey ◴[18 Jan 25 02:51 UTC] No.42745372[source]▶

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One of the many reasons we went with Switch for our DC is because they have a service to handle all of that for you. Having stumbled on doing this ourselves before, it can be pretty tricky to negotiate everything.

We had one provider give us a great price and then bait and switch at the last moment to tell us that there is some other massive installation charge that they didn't realize we had to pay.

Switch Connect/Core is based off the old Enron business that Rob (CEO) bought...

https://www.switch.com/switch-connect/ https://www.switch.com/the-core-cooperative/

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