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03-19-2014, 06:40 PM #1Web Hosting Guru
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Is the cloud killing colocations?
For a project i need some very special equipped servers that i can't find in no normal hosting plan - storage servers which allow me to take the disks to home/competitor when i cancel the contract.
I've checked many offers the last days found that most colocations for 4U and less have almost vanished and the few offers i get from data centers are often stuck in the prices from 2007 (like $20 per TB transfer) and long contract times.
A'm i right or just bad in researching the offers.
I'm especially talking about european hosters.
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03-19-2014, 06:43 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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Why would you need to take the physical disks to a competitor? Why can't you just transfer your data to them?
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03-19-2014, 06:47 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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$20 per 1TB is not 2007 pricing, its still realistic pricing. Are you kidding?
$20 for 1TB is like $4/Mbps... which is perfectly good for such a small amount of pre-paid usage.
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03-19-2014, 06:58 PM #4Web Hosting Guru
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Hello Encrypted, i'm doing a PhD on text mining and just need the servers to gather the corpus for further study. And there is no way i can download 96 TB (4U Storage Server with 24x 4TB disks). As i said, a very special demand.
@Gotzmann: I think it is. And i'm not talking about just buying 1 TB, i'm talking about this price even for purchasing 50-100 TB monthly. I think every datacenter paying more then 5 Euro (US$ 6) per TB has a wrong contract with his carrier.
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03-19-2014, 07:00 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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No datacenter pays by the TB. If you want real pricing, ask for bandwidth metering the same way the datacenter pays -- by the Mbps on 95th percentile.
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03-19-2014, 07:46 PM #6Web Hosting Evangelist
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Datacenters just don't want to work with small clients, especially if you have special arrangements because this causes overheat in support and as result it degrades their service to big clients.
I think this is normal practice. It means that DCs found their place on market.
For you i would recommend to ask re-sellers or to rent dedicated server. In some cases you will be able to arrange shipping of your HDDs even for rented servers.Alnitech.com - dedicated servers for your business
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03-19-2014, 08:10 PM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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Just use somebody like FDC servers if you need cheap bandwidth. They have colo up to 4U in Europe (Zlin) for $59 100mbps unmetered or $159 for 1gbps unmetered. It may not be the best bandwidth in the world but is sounds like what you are looking for.
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03-19-2014, 08:54 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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Is it just me, or is this thread's title totally misleading?
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03-20-2014, 04:24 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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I think you just have a very wrong idea about real bandwidth pricing.
5 Euro (6$ USD) per TB works to to just 1 Euro or 1.2 USD per Mbps. What about the cost of x-connects, transport, network equipment, overhead, and (egads!) margin? You should not expect to see that pricing on <1Gbps, and even then, only with lower cost transit providers in the mix.ASTUTE INTERNET: Advanced, customized, and scalable solutions with AS54527 Premium Performance and Canadian Optimized Network (Level3, Shaw, CogecoPeer1, GTT/Tinet),
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03-20-2014, 04:32 AM #10Web Hosting Master
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If you colocate then the equipment is yours and you would not have any issues of keeping the equipment, it is yours anyway. If you go for dedicated servers, most web hosting providers will be more than happy to allow you to take the hard drives (storage devices) with you as they'd be probably depreciated at the end of your project.
All serious Colocation providers offers 4U rack mount plans. The bandwidth is quite inexpensive in Europe as there are many companies that are well connected to various Internet Exchanges.
In other words, you don't have worries to move forward on your project.
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03-20-2014, 03:50 PM #11Web Hosting Guru
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OP, have you gotten any quotes yet? There are a ton of companies that will do 4U. Most of them will do 1-2U if they're a data center reseller.
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03-20-2014, 03:52 PM #12Web Hosting Guru
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03-20-2014, 05:27 PM #14Web Hosting Guru
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It should be something like this:
Theoretically 1Mbps pushed 24/7 for a month would be ~300GB.
In a perfect world at a constant stream rate, it would require ~3.5Mbps to transfer 1TB in a month. At $1.70/Mbit, it'd be approximately $6 to push 1TB.
Factor in for other real-world dynamics and you can get a closer estimate.QuadraNet.com™ - Enterprise Dedicated Servers, Cloud Hosting, and Colocation
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03-20-2014, 05:58 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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Typically, you see about 200GB of bandwidth, average sustained, for every 1Mbps of 95th percentile. So simply take the price/TB and divide it by 5 for price/Mbps.
That's the conversion rate you'd use for 50th percentile. In order to convert to 95th percentile, you'd need to factor in the standard deviation, which in theory works out to something like 1.645 times the standard deviation using the z value in a normal distribution, but standard deviations will vary from port to port also so there is no accurate direct conversion possible.
With real world empirical results, you'll see somewhere between 180-250GB per Mbps 90%+ of the time, or at least I did when doing some analysis with a sample size of ~10,000 some years ago. 200GB is just an easy number to use, slightly on the conservative side.ASTUTE INTERNET: Advanced, customized, and scalable solutions with AS54527 Premium Performance and Canadian Optimized Network (Level3, Shaw, CogecoPeer1, GTT/Tinet),
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03-20-2014, 06:12 PM #16Web Hosting Master
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hhw is correct, I typically use between 150-200GB per 1Mbps as the conversion. Seeing higher than 200GB is very rare.
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03-21-2014, 09:29 AM #17Junior Guru Wannabe
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Thanks @jgoldman @hhw and @cgotzmann. My brain must have thought it was Friday yesterday; any way I turned that problem it just wasn't coming out right for me.
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03-21-2014, 10:00 AM #18Web Hosting Guru
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No the title is correct but the thread went in a different way i didn't want to talk about initially.
I didn't ask to comment on my personal problem (i just mentioned it to explain why there is need for personal customized servers - bad mistake).
The question is still. Do we see Colocation options disappearing because all data centers and large resellers go into maintaining a homogenous hardware equipment?
Did globalisation/optimisation again kill all individuality?
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03-21-2014, 12:13 PM #19Web Hosting Guru
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Quite the contrary. Amazon and others are now focusing a lot of effort on specialized hardware not homogenous hardware.
In terms of colo versus cloud, I recently took a look at cost savings of going with colocation versus using the Amazon cloud for hosting STH. After 13 months the colo option saved about $5500. That article was a fairly popular read.My site dedicated to server and workstation hardware: http://www.servethehome.com
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03-21-2014, 02:18 PM #20Web Hosting Master
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A couple of prospects that we were talking to about getting colo. They insisted that cloud is better than colo (on a side note not every one knows what colo/data center is) So here they debated that they needed a private cloud and do that with 3-4 cabinets. I had to ask them where are they gonna put the cloud. It spooked them out.
So to answer OP's questions, no cloud is not killing colo, infact colo is backbone to cloud (yeah its not up in the air, it has to be somewhere in a data center)
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Same here. Are we discussing the cloud vs colo and the changing market or bandwidth pricing?
Clouds are built in datacenters, they are not in competition with one another. Use a cloud until your needs are large enough to go colocation. There is A LOT more to colo than just renting some space. Hosting is too mature to be reinventing the wheel.Greg Landis | Director of Growth Jaguarpc - Unlock Superior Hosting with JaguarPC
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03-22-2014, 03:16 PM #22Web Hosting Guru
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Yes colocation is cheaper and thats why i think it is dropped. And i can only say that in the german/central europe market colocation is almost dropped by everyone. I only get dedicated servers which i simply can't use because they don't fit me.
Before i had about a dozend affordable options, now i'm left with just one (Hetzner) and one in Netherlands (i3D) and FDC server where i can only find horror stories about their network/customer support/performance/reliability/whatever.
So i simply can't get your argument that colocation is doing fine.
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03-22-2014, 04:06 PM #23Web Hosting Master
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I shop in the USA and I still have many good options for colocation here. Perhaps there are fewer options, but still an acceptable number that I'm not terribly concerned. If the market has thinned out really bad in your region, there could be outside concerns other than a normal business need - government oversight/regulation, electric availability, taxation issues, man-power, etc.
What is your impression of availability of raw caged datacenter space in your region? That could provide additional hints as to what is happening to cause the divide between rented and owned.
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03-24-2014, 09:40 AM #24Junior Guru Wannabe
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03-24-2014, 01:26 PM #25Junior Guru Wannabe
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I would say that the cloud market is fueling rapid colocation expansion. New facilities with 500,000+ sqr/ft of raised floor is popping up everywhere.
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