One of the drives in our server has failed. =( Even though it should be a 10 minute job OVH needs a 2 hour window to replace it.
I’ve requested they schedule it for Tuesday from 8am - 10AM PST. Hopefully it’ll be reasonably quick, but expect cloudflare tunnel errors while they perform the work.
Where would you run it?
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Interesting. So you give them a box and they put it into their rack?
Basically. It wouldn’t be with them directly, but with a smaller provider I know that has several racks. They’ll rent me a space in one of their racks, based on our power and network requirements.
Most colocation providers don’t want to deal with sharing multiple customers in a rack, they also don’t generally provide network access.
Is this cheaper than a cloud VM? I suppose that’s why you’re going this route.
It’s complicated. Normally for us no it wouldn’t make sense. You would plan to amortize the hardware cost over something like 3 years, but you need to have the $ to buy the hardware and also know what hardware you’ll need for future growth. The unpredictability is why cloud usually wins, but cloud is expensive in exchange for flexibility.
In our case here I’m donating the hardware and it’s ridiculously overpowered for what we need, so hosting it somewhere makes sense.