Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud

Re:Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud by Symbiote on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:06PM (#35101070)

You can obviously buy servers from HP or Dell. I have about 80 in a colo datacentre.

Power, air-conditioning, security etc isn't my problem. That's what we pay the colo for.

I go there about once a year to install new servers, and about once at some other point in the year to replace a failed disk. I've taken various developers who are interested each time, so if I'm out of town there are several people who can cover, plus the colo staff.

You can also pay for people to do this routine work.

And then there's still the option of renting managed servers, so that company handles all the hardware.

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Re:Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud by topicseed on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:19PM (#35101227)

To be fair, this sounds a lot of to do items that I don't want to do.

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Re:Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud by Symbiote on Friday March 10, 2023 @05:18PM (#35101984)

I think it's nice to have a completely different type of work a couple of days per year.

I've found there's generally developers who are into building custom gaming PCs or Raspberry Pis or whatever who are interested to see the servers and lend a hand installing new ones.

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Re:Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud by topicseed on Saturday March 11, 2023 @07:48AM (#35107882)

I actually am into hacking at home but I'd definitely not play around with my business' production environment. Wouldn't know where to start if sh* hits the fan.

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Re:Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud by senttoschool on Sunday March 12, 2023 @01:19AM (#35117305)

Not sure why you're being downvoted. But I love building PCs too. There's no way I'd want to put together my company's server hardware though even though the basics are the same.

I do not want to be on call 24/7.

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Re:Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud by OccamsMirror on Sunday March 12, 2023 @08:22AM (#35119254)

How are the basics the same? No one builds their own server.

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Re:Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud by sshine on Friday March 10, 2023 @08:04PM (#35103824)

That's why managed servers exist.

You can't get much more time efficient than data centre operators handling hardware.

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