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Re: [LUG] Data centre in Cornwall

 

On 2008-08-05T14:18+0100 James Fidell wrote:
> How many people are really going to want access to their own hardware
> though?

That's a good point. I rent servers from dreamhost/slicehost/bytemark
quite happily.

For very innovative companies with special hardware/software
requirements.

For companies that need physical access to their hardware for some
reason or another.

Chiefly I would want it in order to have a super fast connection at
home. Though seriously, uploading images like I need to with
Webconverger all the time is a major pain in the ass from Virgin Media
XL connection I have in Woking, Surrey. I must have local copies of the
images to test them locally.

Anyway it's *nice* to have your server close by. I don't think it is
necessary. I am more disappointed how much it costs in the UK to be an
'online producer'. There aren't many data center facilities in England.
Ones that do exist are very expensive compared to any other country I've
seen. And to get your own property hooked up to a 'leased line', well
read on...

> There are some people who want to colocate their own server because it's
> cheap, but you're not going to make much money off them in the first
> place and they come with a whole bunch of other problems.

In my mind I thought a 50GBP price tag per month for an informal
co-location for a server in this half-baked barn idea. Already this is a
more expensive than Helsinki. This price is outrageous in Korea or
Japan. :)

So far the quotes for LES 100 at prazefarm.co.uk is around 50k GBP just
to setup. I have a LONAP contact that says it should be more like 20k,
though prazefarm.co.uk isn't in London and though there is fibre optic
adjacent, it's difficult to compare.

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