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How do you do anything without cooling?
While searching for a graphical response to @Jack, I found this:
Not what I was looking for, but probably better than what I'd find.
Nobody around here should use age as the basis for approving or condemning a business idea. We have several early-20s people around here running huge companies. But the key to all this is money and experience. If you don't have the experience and can't pay someone who does, you're out of luck.
Start small, see what it's like from the ground up, and then decide if you really want to pursue something like that. If those DCs in your area were bringing in lots of customers, they would probably be charging considerably less. Doesn't sound like a good market.
Start small with a server room first then see what you can do in a larger scale. Like everyone has mentioned experience + startup capital is key
@Jack I didn't think you would give up your company's secrets!
I think it's possible, just rent a tiny office space like 300-500 sq feet for dirt cheap and just stuff it with servers.. not sure if it's available in your area but that Google fiber offering with 1000mbps would be a good choice.
Where I use to work I know of a few folks who has done exactly this they rent the upstairs office space and colo computers, I'm sure it's not for everyone but I know a lot of hobbyist would sign up for your service if it's cheap enough
And either way, Google Fiber doesn't exist yet and it will be in Kansas City first. It'll be a while, I think, before it's readily available anyhow.
Not to mention that Wholesale Internet and Datashack kinda have the Kansas City budget market saturated. And they're using real transit and fiber, not some residential line.
@Jack
I found some servers for Shane!
@JTR Too fancy.. we want to keep costs down remember!
This looks like an ideal rack mounted kvm console thingymedoodle.
@AsadHaider
He should just buy some servers from http://hostbluff.com and resell them.
@ElliotJ Too many buttons.. WHAT TO DO?
@AsadHaider
Problem solved!
@JTR You're a problem solver, I like you.
HIT THEM ALL!
Shane. do you really think you can handle it ? we dont want a dc to not pay its bills and have our server taken offline
like others said you need 20 M and it will cost you alot to open one the equipment itself is already a killler.
Stop dreaming and just rent servers. you cant even pay the server bils what makes you think you can pay for your own DC?
Isn't google notorious for not always using chassis and velcro mounting ups batteries to the mb?
@bdtech Ya, they build their own hardware though.
Randy this is exactly what we're talking about. This kind of comment. You're just talking to talk at this point, parroting what others are saying as if it you're adding content.
I'm not trying to get on you but I want you to recognize what you're doing and how others perceive it so that you can better interact with this community.
Understod thanks Nick
Have fun paying for dark fiber in a tier 3 market.
I would, under at least 500k-1mil you don't need to even try it.
My daughter has one of those, eats batteries like crazy though so not very power friendly.
Setting up a DC is fairly easy with enough planning, securing the money is the tricky part. At my day job we were looking at purchasing an already build data center and without power or bandwidth it was $7m just to get it up to spec (they decided to just build a brand new one in Denver where power and bandwidth are cheap but they are spending tens of millions for it).
If you don't do it right then it's not worth doing unless you plan on leaving the building when you want to do it right or you plan on spending millions to do it right.