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At my company we operate something similar to that with 2 system engineers and 2 network engineers. 2 main offices and 2 separate physical COLO datacenters + lots of satellite offices and remote workers. Everything is HA and we have a DR site that is mostly unused. Everything is backed up securely (push only) and can be easily restored (database aware) extremely quickly if needed. In an absolutely worst case shit hit…
> Does this take awhile inititally to setup? Yes it does. This is fundamentally the difference to me. I've worked with hardware before, and if your business and load is predictable, and you understand how to architect it before going in, it's a good option. You can put in a bit of extra up-front work and get more control and lower costs. But most tech companies are not like this.
Re: Singapore software vendor says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud
#201The other issue I have ran into is that developers all have worked at a startup where they had really shitty on prem setups. As in just a bunch of devs hacking it together without much thought and no actual sysadmin or system engineer / dedicated ops people. That leaves a bad taste in peoples mouth