At 11:23 AM 6/17/2008, Greg Lindahl wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:43:07AM -0700, Jim Lux wrote:
> For instance, do co-lo facilities charge you for power, or is
> it like office space, where you rent it by the square foot, and an
> assumed amount of power and HVAC comes with the price.
The typical colo charges by space, with a certain amount of power per
rack, but in practice the limit is power. As an example, the new colo
I'm moving into only gives me enough power for 16 machines per
rack. But older colos are only 2/3 of that. These are HPCish nodes.
I was pretty surprised by this, as most HPC machine rooms allow a
significantly higher power density.
> but still, in
> the long run the cost to do the job MUST be less than what the
> customer is willing to pay (unless the owner is some sort of
> philanthropist, naive, or a fool)
Mmmmmmmmmmmmf. MMMMF!
-- greg
Well.. to be fair, there were (and still are) businesses out there
(particularly a few years ago) that didn't fully understand the
concept of needing net profit. (ah yes, the glory days of startups
"buying market share" in the dot-com bubble) And, some folks made a
fine living in the mean time. (But, then, those folks weren't the
owners, were they, or if they were, in a limited sense, they now have
some decorative wallpaper..)
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