[HCoop-Discuss] Recusing myself from HCoop planning

[Adam Chlipala]

David Snider wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:46:58 -0400, Adam Chlipala <adamc at hcoop.net> wrote:
>   
>> David Snider wrote:
>>     
>>> 2) Lease dedicated servers with a company that has a generous support
>>> policy rather than co-locating our own servers in dog-eat-dog Manhattan.
>>>
>>>       
>> This ends up costing us quite a bit more than buying
>> one-generation-out-of-date used servers.  If a colo provider has
>> reasonable support rates, then it seems like shipping hardware to them
>> to set up is a more reasonable option.
>>     
>
> I don't see how this is possible. I have looked at dedicated server rates
> which are far lower than just our collocation costs.
>   

Market rates for colocation are effectively under $50/mo./U.  You can 
fit a lot of compute power in 1U.  It's monetarily wasteful to do 
anything but try to jam as much capacity per U as you can.  I think 
you'll find that dedicated servers cost _much_ more if they're not way 
less powerful than you'd accept for your personal workstation.