Anyone thinking of Racking folders

kerrgreg

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So, Ive been looking around my house thinking how noise and quiet it is with no folders around the place, however I dont want to fill my garage with them and I know it wont be cool enough in the summer so.. was thinking about racking them in a data center I already have a couple of servers (atoms) so it would only be increasing my capacity, now here is the thing.

The space and Power gets cheaper the more you take so, would anyone else be interested in sharing the space with me or using the space. Theres allot of things to discuss but at the moment I dont have the room to grow so Im going to be going for something bigger and Im not tied in so its the perfect time to move around.

I guess the guys with the 4 cpu rigs might be interested but really its open to anyone.
 
I might be interested in the future, depends how much we're talking and what is provided. I've looked into hosting/colocation before but never had a need for it, now I don't have room in my flat for servers it might be something I'd be interested in when I do have some.
 
I've been looking at it myself. However the major cost is power. You don't need much bandwidth, but you need a lot of Amps.

Also most of us have our machines in desktop cases, usually big ones :eek: So you have to add the cost of converting it to a 1U or 2U chassis that fits the mobo. Or if you have a mega GPU cruncher then you are looking at a 4U chassis with big PSUs.

You don't have to of course, you can just shove the desktops into a rack, but the rack won't hold many and you will probably need a full rack before too long.

Not saying its not a good idea (otherwise I wouldn't have been looking at it meself) :) but its a tricky one. (otherwise I would have jumped in by now)
 
Biffa said:
Its called colocation, been around for donkeys
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Furthermore thats how most places have a presence in a DC, rarely does a DataCentre own and provide a service to customer, normally they resell the space in bulk to another party who can deal with the customers and provide a service to them, be it virtualization, email, hosting etc.
 
I'm not so worried about the Amps on the opteron rigs, although two of them need 4Amps, its the quad gpu rig thats concerning me!

Things that peeve me most are sites where they don't show the prices and expect you to call some smarmy salesperson.
 
Yeah that bugs me too.

Well looks like Im going for a 14u rack with a friend at £250 PM with 4amp power commit there is data charge on that too but he will be using most of the data, so the price wouldnt go up too much for more power.

To put it in perspective ive been quoted £600 for dual 32amps on a 48u rack so although its £600pm you would get 12 4u GPU folding machines with plenty of room for draw. Which makes it around £50 per month per server which I think is good not as cheap as running them at home I guess, but more convenient. Of course that comes down nicely if you start looking at 2u servers...
 
Me and a friend between us have 4 DL360 G5's and 4 dell CS23-SH's, on full load they draw approx 1.2A each so on that basis we would need 10A allowance. I wonder how much that would cost?

Do you have any details on who you've gone with? My Loft Lack Rack won't last in the summer heat for sure :)

Thanks
B
 
I found a good one.

Full Rack Colo
42U Space
8 Amps Power
Dedicated Rack
32 IPs
100Mbps Uplink
5Mbps bandwidth (95th %tile)
15 mins remote hands/day
98% SLA
£250 / month
or £2500 / Year (15% saving)
 
kerrgreg said:
Hmm, I know all business's start somewhere but I wouldnt be putting £x thousands of hardware at that location....
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I would certainly want a tour before handing over my equipment :) Just street viewed it, looks like a council estate :cool:

With regards to your early post kerrgreg thanks for your offer but at the moment we can't commit and wouldn't want to hold up your plans. I'm still using the machines for a video encoding job however its not to say something could be sorted at a later date :D

Thanks
B
 
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