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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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TacticalCoder ◴[17 Jan 25 23:53 UTC] No.42744487[source]▶
> 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?

TFA explain what they're doing, they literally write this:

"In general you have three main choices: Greenfield buildout (...), Cage Colocation (getting a private space inside a provider's datacenter enclosed by mesh walls), or Rack colocation...

We chose the second option"

I don't know how much clearer they can be.

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1. jeremyjh ◴[18 Jan 25 12:53 UTC] No.42747982[source]▶
The title is "So you want to build your own data center" and the article is about something else. Its nice that they say that up front, but its valid to criticize the title.