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Originally Posted by 1maverick
DC in Basement = Bad name in hosting business for all of us - PERIOD --
you can never run a large client base, or maintain and provide excellent service to a large client base in your basement and be cost effective. YOU CANT - please post if somebody is running out of their basement and is using more then 10 mbit/sec on multiple servers
then tell everyone your cost for bandwidth and your hydro bill every month ...
Like Sifork said for one to a few servers for testing for you own personal stuff - not a problem but for real customer data - go to a co-location center.
also what about firewall, security appliances etc?
Here is the big problem ... to many people try basement hosting, and screw it up and those customers clump all the small hosting companies in the same lot and go to yahoo, godaddy, etc from the brand name .
I hate when customers ask me Do you do hosting in your basement?? -- my answer of course is NO - and i hate the answer even more -- oh we were with abc co and our site went down for 3 days and we found out he was hosting in his basement so we signed up with godaddy -- HATE THAT ..
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You have to admit in a weird sort of way that it is funny. I guess around here there is not a lot of people running DC's out of their basement. Hell I would go as far to say no one is. We live in a low technology area.
In an odd sort of way, it makes me laugh. There was an old Sprint faculty in an office building downtown that they were doing six months free and $10.00/sq. ft. per year. That included the HVAC I almost jumped on. I believe it is still available. While it would be a great location for about 20 racks the bandwidth would literally kill us.
There would be no form of power red. or backup generators. I knew it was a great deal because of the fact no one knew what the cost associate it was when they asked me what a data center was. lol Plus there was only 20 x 20 amp circuits so I could only fill them half up unless I was using ATOM's lol