New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
Comments
You're going to find the number of dedicated server providers who don't own the DC will far, far out number the ones that own their DC. And then standing up another building adds a cost drain until it surpasses a certain amount of utilization. That's orders of magnitude in scale larger than a typical LET dedicated server provider. @Clouvider doesn't own any DC's, AFAIK. I'd be curious what his plan is for retiring old hardware.
Hungry.
Sometimes I'm surprised how old some production hardware is. A company I used to work for finally retired some old Windows 2000 servers with dual Pentium 3 or 4 processors in 2011, shortly after Microsoft ended extended support for Windows 2000. Those servers were in the DC for 10 years or more, just doing their job.
I personally would have no issue colo old hardware if a client is wanting to pay for the power.
Let alone if the dedicated machine is out of date. So be it. If the client is using it and is happy. Let them chug along and keep business as usual. Finding parts on ebay is easy for these old systems.
My super cheap dual quad Xeon 5420 has been chugging along quite nicely for the past 3.5 years. It's monthly charge is so "Unreal" that it will be nigh on impossible to replace on a like-for-like performance basis.
I would storm into the premises and rescue my long standing bride from the hands of those bastards.. If money fails, violence is still an option.
When we discontinued OpenVZ we gave users a 3 month notice and automatically provisioned account credit for clients to manually choose a new KVM plan to replace their service with and migrate their data. This worked well, ideally I would have automatically provisioned replacement VM's but with the disparity in disk between VZ and KVM plans it would have been a mess to figure out which plan would work best for each user.