talk about price.
in long term
maybe cons and pros too
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talk about price.
in long term
maybe cons and pros too
I never really rented or bought a server, But I'd read into it and im the type that would rent it for a couple of months, After a while I like what im getting done and all ill buy that same exact server, Im the type that likes to use it befor I abuse it.
Colocation can offer reduced cost in the long run but greater up front costs. I don't think buying a single server and colocating would be better than renting from many providers these days though. If you were to build the server yourself and needed to use an OS that is not free that you already own, colocation would be a better value.
Renting
Pro: If it breaks - they have to fix it, not putting you out of pocket, for example if the harrdrive goes you wont have to pay $50 to fix it.
Buying
Pro: With great initial investment can work out cheaper over long term, as long as its correctly maintained.
I co-locate with 3Z Canada in Toronto, bought a Dell server and its been going GREAT! $100/month co-location cost cant complain.
If you have the know how, why rent a server when you can buy one and its yours? Just my thought.
I have a question in my mind. I search on ebay and find some cheap servers. But how I send these to my company or I should ask for my company to buy a server from them. Could anyone talk about process
From a business aspect of things, all owned hardware is a asset, which helps when it comes to the balance sheets.
I have started buying some servers and stuff to prepare for moving to a co-location environment.
I don't think you want to go to ebay and buy a used server, if anything is cheap on ebay then It's the old stuff and generally not worth it to colocate. If your going to go to ebay and buy a dual single core xeon with hd's and ram it's not worth it to colo because you could basically either rent the same specs or better specs for the price of colocation.
Colocation is only basically worth it when your looking for something specific, for example high RAM servers.
To put it simple: for a single server colocation will not be cost-efficient most of the time, unless you're planning to host a large machine (lots of RAM, dual quad cores, fast drives). The idea is to be able to make your money back as time goes by, and with a low-end cheap server, it will be very hard to get your money back within a year, so renting may be more cost-efficient, not to mention when you rent you will have your host responsible for replacing your broken hardware (drives going bad, power supply shorting, etc.) whereas on colo, you will need to send replacement parts with your server or buy a replacement from the datacenter if they have it in stock, and possibly at a markup, as well as pay for remote hands to replace it, unless you plan on going down to the datacenter to swap the drive yourself.
I am very confusued than before now.
Now could you summary like that
if you need a xxx. you should goo
but if you need a yy, you should go
if you need a xxx and also cheap go abc etc