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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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xiconfjs ◴[17 Jan 25 23:17 UTC] No.42744262[source]▶
I have to second this. While it takes mich effort and in-depth knowledge do build up from an “empty” cage it’s still far from dealing with everything from building permits, to plan and realize a data center to code including redundant power lines, AC and fibre.

Still kudos going this path in the cloud-centric time we live in.

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matt-p ◴[18 Jan 25 00:30 UTC] No.42744688[source]▶
Yes, the second is much more work, orders of magnitude at least.
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1. motorest ◴[18 Jan 25 13:06 UTC] No.42748050[source]▶
> Yes, the second is much more work, orders of magnitude at least.

I feel it's important to stress that the difficulty level of collocating something, let alone actually building a data center, is exactly what makes cloud computing so enticing and popular.

Everyone focuses on trivia items like OpEx vs CapEx and dynamic scaling, but the massive task of actually plugging in the hardware in a secure setting and get it to work reliably is a massive undertaking.

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2. matt-p ◴[18 Jan 25 17:45 UTC] No.42749967[source]▶
I just honestly don't agree with that at all. That's the easy bit, the bit I don't enjoy is organising backups and storage in general. But it's not 'hard'.