Ok, our company is growing in users fast!!!, we use a dedicated server service provided by a well known company, but their service sucks, their technical support is a joke, sometimes connection fails, the price is also excessive, upgrading memory on our rental server isn’t really an option, memory upgrade would nearly double our monthly fee. So, we’re looking at buying our own server, the initial up front cost would be high, but we will save some money in the long run.
What are your thoughts on rent vs. buy
Dedicated Server vs. own server, suggestions?
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Re: Dedicated Server vs. own server, suggestions?
#2If you're thinking about hosting yourself it doesn't make any sense. If you think about collocation then it's better but in your calculations include the fact that hardware breaks and with dedicated servers you get it fixed for free, when you buy the server yourself you have to buy anything that breaks and replace it. Almost always it means more of your time spent in dealing with it, more time of your users with lower quality/no service and it adds to the cost.
Of course it's an option but you have to keep those things in mind. And before you do it I would search for some other provider of those dedicated solutions (or vps) before making that step
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#3Do not host yourself. Find a better provider.
With collocation you'll end up responsible for all of the hardware and still be dependent on remote hands so service could still suck and likely get much worse.
System Administration is hard and unless you have the $$ to pay one full time, rent the HW.
Most hosting companies will suck if you don't have much business with them. I worked for Rackspace years ago and bigger fish always get much more attention.
I do some consulting work now and find myself on calls with Hostway pretty often and they seem to know their stuff. You might check them out.
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#4I've always wanted my own server, but then I discovered Amazon's AWS. It's much much cheaper, and you can scale pretty easily.
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#5Are you sure it will save money in the long run? I feel like most of the conversation along these lines that goes on is pretty shallow, performance to dollars in a vacuum.
I'd say flip it around, think about what you're trying to achieve and do the math on all the options to solve it. Pre-framing it as a dedicated rental versus a self-managed purchased is unnecessarily narrow.
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#6Hey,
Shoot me an email anthony@makeropspro.com I am developing a service specifically for startups, that you may be interested in, I can probably help.
Re: Dedicated Server vs. own server, suggestions?
#7I've always wanted my own server, but then I discovered Amazon's AWS. It's much much cheaper, and you can scale pretty easily.
If you think AWS is cheaper than ANY bare metal hardware you are out of your mind or simply just an amazon shill.
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#8Have you guys seen Hetzner hosting? Their servers have ridiculous hardware for very low monthly costs relative to other hosts, and the support usually gets back to me within the hour.
http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...
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#9Upgrading memory on dedicated servers is and always has been crazy expensive. It's absurdly expensive - we had a 4gb Dell server at and, if I wanted to double that to 8GB, it was going to be another $50 per month for two years. I could've bought the memory outright for $120. It's around that time that you need to re-evaluate which server you have and whether it's time to change servers completely.
Re: Dedicated Server vs. own server, suggestions?
#10If you're thinking about hosting yourself it doesn't make any sense. If you think about collocation then it's better but in your calculations include the fact that hardware breaks and with dedicated servers you get it fixed for free, when you buy the server yourself you have to buy anything that breaks and replace it. Almost always it means more of your time spent in dealing with it, more time of your users with lowe…
Thanks for the answer, yes we are thinking in Collocation, we offer different kind of services, will start moving the lightest service first, just to see if we can handle the situation and learn from our own experience.