[PLUG] Holy Troika

[Brent Rieck]

max.reid at saikonetworks.com wrote:
> Hmm...If redundancy and flexibility are your primary drivers,  your cost factor
> issue could be mitigated somewhat by running your own servers.  Only "costs"
> besides hardware at this point would  be to purchase commodity transit from a
> variety of ISPs or colocation providers.  Once you pinpoint your capacity
> requirements, handling things like redundancy is pretty trivial and not that
> expensive with DNS and SMTP.

assuming my time is not free I find it's much cheaper to lease "managed" 
servers that sit in somebody else's well powered and well connected data 
center, usually only a few dollars more a month than renting the rack 
space and bandwidth myself and buying hardware to stick in it.

--Brent