Don't rent the cloud, own instead
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Don't rent the cloud, own instead
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#2It would be interesting to hear their contingency plan for any kind of disaster (most commonly a fire) that hits their data center.
Re: Don't rent the cloud, own instead
#3It would be interesting to hear their contingency plan for any kind of disaster (most commonly a fire) that hits their data center.
Yep, does anyone remember the OVH fire[1][2]?
[1] https://www.techradar.com/news/remember-the-ovhcloud-data-ce...
[2] https://blocksandfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ovhclo...
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#4It would be interesting to hear their contingency plan for any kind of disaster (most commonly a fire) that hits their data center.
Flooding due to burst frozen pipe, false sprinkler trigger, or many others.
Something very similar happened at work. Water valve monitoring wasn’t up yet. Fire didn’t respond because reasons. Huge amount of water flooded over a 3 day weekend. Total loss.
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#5This is a great solution for a very specific type of team but I think most companies with consistent GPU workloads will still just rent dedicated servers and call it a day.
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#6I used to colocate a 2U server that I purchased with a local data center. It was a great learning experience for me. Im curious why a company wouldn't colocate their own hardware? Proximity isnt an issue when you can have the datacenter perform physical tasks. Bravo to the comma team regardless. It'll be a great learning experience and make each person on their team better.
Ps... bx cable instead of conduit for electrical looks cringe.
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#7It would be interesting to hear their contingency plan for any kind of disaster (most commonly a fire) that hits their data center.
Theres only one solution to this problem and its 2 data centres in some way or form
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#815-years ago or so a spreadsheet was floating around where you could enter server costs, compute power, etc and it would tell you when you would break-even by buying instead of going with AWS. I think it was leaked from Amazon because it was always three-years to break-even even as hardware changed over time.
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#9Datacenters need cool dry air? No, low isn't good perse. I worked in a datacenter which in winters had less than 40%, ram was failing all over the place. Low humidity causes static electricity.
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#10In case anyone from comma.ai reads this: "CTO @ comma.ai" the link at the end is broken, it’s relative instead of absolute.