Mark Hahn wrote:
Think about it: if you pay 1/3 the cost of a new node per year in rent
and utilities,
that seems amazingly high to me. I don't have much sense for rent,
but even if we ran our clusters on "retail" power rates it would only
amount to 2.3% of purchase cost. you could pretty easily argue that our
purchase prices are high, but even so still < 10%/year. with your
kind of costs, wouldn't it make sense to consider a colo site? from
a cursory grep of the web, it sounds like they're still substantially
less than 33%...
Depends upon where they are, what they offer. If Greg spends
$3000/node, and his colo costs are $1000/year then this is $83.33 per
month in site AND bandwidth charges. Given that colo's price by GB per
month, and Greg appears to be building a search engine with 2U boxes, it
looks like he is actually getting a bit of a deal ... on space AND
bandwidth ... in Silicon Valley. Greg, this isn't the big downtown
(fashionable) colo ... the one that had the outage a few years ago :(
Yes, we have seen pricing from $50-200/month per rack unit, with
bandwidth of 2GB/month. Additional bandwidth costs more.
So in 3 years, Greg has effectively bought a new node.
He could host all this himself, then he has rent, power, cooling, and
bandwidth to pay for, not to mention more operator time, etc. Costs
come out similar, but on different budgets. Colos turn this into an
expense, other methods turn it into capital acquisition.
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