Re:The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performan...
by acdha on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:03AM
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Data centers do that for additional costs. It can be a way to save if your needs are simple and don’t change but it’s also often a source of downtime or operational overhead since you’re looking at managing separate groups of people versus using an API.
You can definitely save money this way but it rarely ends up being as much as touted - double digit percentages, not whole multiples - unless you’re really bandwidth intensive.
Data centers already do that. You could build your own rack and send it to them, but the more common model is renting preconfigured servers on a monthly or annual basis with them swapping out broken hardware as needed etc.
Cloud computing can save on administrative costs, but there is a huge world between building everything in house and AWS.