Colocation Server Pricing comparing

[Zankza]

I'm here to ask people who holds knowledge related to servers builds.

My team has been discussing to ditch dedicated server rental and go for co-location rent, supposedly it'll save us some money and much better customization.

So I need to figure out if that is true, I would need at least dual processor, 32-128GB RAM, maybe some SSD/HDD (we will have multiple servers; there could be application and storage servers designs)

Theoretically the idea is that you can compile and build an server unit cheaper than 2500, preferably 2000.

I am currently now renting servers off hetzner.de/en; Please go observe and see if you think you can make an cheaper "package", colocation can be among of those "well known" data center, such as hivelocity but however hetzner wins colocation pricing still.

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex

If you have any questions, please ask, and i'll be here to answer and give out more informations.

 

[lambchops511]

You pay others because of support. What if server goes down? Is this mission critical? Server goes down means XYZ hours until someone drives to colocation center debugs + possibly buy new parts + etc.... Isn't this worth money as well?

 

[mfenn]

I presume you're talking about 2500 euros? I don't know what European server prices are like, but I can tell you that you'd be hard pressed to get a dual processor server wit 64GB of RAM and an SSD for $2500. You need to spend at around doubt that to get all those goodies.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Would Amazon cloud servers make sense for you? No hardware costs at all, scales up or down as needed, load balancing, near-instant fail-over if server(s) crash.

 

[mfenn]

Would Amazon cloud servers make sense for you? No up front hardware costs at all, scales up or down as needed, load balancing, near-instant fail-over if server(s) crash.

Fixed that for you. You're definitely paying for the hardware, just not directly. Overall though, I agree. Unless you absolutely positively need the full performance of a physical machine (hint, you probably don't) AWS is a great way to get started without incurring a bunch of capital expenses.