{"id":4135,"date":"2012-10-16T16:11:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T16:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?p=12918"},"modified":"2012-10-16T16:11:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T16:11:08","slug":"contrarian-building-colocating-your-own-servers-no-cloud-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/contrarian-building-colocating-your-own-servers-no-cloud-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Contrarian: Building, Colocating Your Own Servers, No Cloud Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Atwood has a great post at Coding Horror talking about his penchant for building his own servers to rack at a colo. It tries to compare to the Amazon Ec2 alternative, all the while admitting it&#8217;s pretty much apples and oranges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I want to make it clear that\u00a0<strong>building and colocating your own servers isn&#8217;t (always) crazy, it isn&#8217;t scary, heck, it isn&#8217;t even particularly\u00a0hard<\/strong>. In some situations it can make sense to build and rack your own servers, provided \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>you want absolute top of the line server performance without paying thousands of dollars per month for the privilege<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>you are willing to invest the time in building, racking, and configuring your servers<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>you have the capital to invest up front<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>you desire total control over the hardware<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>you aren&#8217;t worried about the flexibility of quickly provisioning new servers to handle unanticipated load<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>you don&#8217;t need the redundancy, geographical backup, and flexibility that comes with cloud virtualization<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/building-servers-for-fun-and-prof-ok-maybe-just-for-fun.html\">worth reading<\/a> in its own right, but also because he does a pretty good job of outlining the pros and cons of cloud versus self-hosting. It&#8217;s also good thing to remember that no matter how &#8220;virtual&#8221; we get there&#8217;s still gotta be a bunch of hardware somewhere to make it all go.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=11e95755-5577-442a-aecf-c61bba30cad1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gJz9y-uYjxoXiS4RSkJvwKOfF1k\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gJz9y-uYjxoXiS4RSkJvwKOfF1k\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gJz9y-uYjxoXiS4RSkJvwKOfF1k\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gJz9y-uYjxoXiS4RSkJvwKOfF1k\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/VUxivxIsThM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Atwood has a great post at Coding Horror talking about his penchant for building his own servers to rack at a colo. It tries to compare to the Amazon Ec2 alternative, all the while admitting it&#8217;s pretty much apples and oranges. I want to make it clear that\u00a0building and colocating your own servers isn&#8217;t [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,720,327,227,1129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon-aws","category-amazon-elastic-compute-cloud","category-data-center","category-hardware","category-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}