What Constitutes a Datacenter
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rocksolidvps
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A refrigerated shipping container.
DomainBop
Dormant VPSB Pathogen
I guess you've never heard of Brazil. My 2 VPS's with 15Mbps connections are the envy of all the suckas who are stuck in Brazilian datacenters with 5Mbps connections.
Ok, so a rack = 15 datacenters?
mikho
Not to be taken seriously, ever!
I don't think any datacenter here in Sweden has any armed guards and not every center has staff on site 24/7.
We have a couple of sites here where there are security cameras monitoring everything and every customer who has a rack also has the key to that area in the building. You are actually allowed to walk around the isles and look at every rack there is. Taking photos of any rack, except your own will revoke your access.
And since it is a small pond, the word will get out and you would have a hard time finding another dc to rent in.
If you go direct with the company owning the DC, some doesn't supply remote hands. They send you the key and it is your responsibility to fix it. If you need remote hands, that is another service. Perhaps from another company.
We have a couple of sites here where there are security cameras monitoring everything and every customer who has a rack also has the key to that area in the building. You are actually allowed to walk around the isles and look at every rack there is. Taking photos of any rack, except your own will revoke your access.
And since it is a small pond, the word will get out and you would have a hard time finding another dc to rent in.
If you go direct with the company owning the DC, some doesn't supply remote hands. They send you the key and it is your responsibility to fix it. If you need remote hands, that is another service. Perhaps from another company.
This coming from someone who has a datacenter in his closet
"A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components" - wikipedia
So, a basement could be a data center!
So, a basement could be a data center!
D. Strout
Resident IPv6 Proponent
I think perhaps the main issue is one of intention. In other words, upon (re)consideration, I would say that a datacenter is a building or portion of a building constructed or arranged for the purpose of housing servers and connecting to the Internet for exchanging and making available data. Thus, though your basement might meet some of the aforementioned datacenter requirements (high speed connection, multiple servers), it's not a datacenter because it was not intended as such, and in fact also serves other purposes for which it is not only specifically intended, but perhaps also better suited. This definition also allows for datacenters that are obviously datacenters, but might have, for instance, slow uplinks or a lack of security.
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So I have a datacenter in front of me!!