[PLUG] Holy Troika

[max.reid at saikonetworks.com]

Quoting Brent Rieck <bsr at spek.org>:

> 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.

A valid option in many cases.  Depending on what specific services are offered
under the "managed"  umbrella (which can vary significantly: buyer beware, YMMV,
etc. etc.), and much bling bling you think your data has.

Regards,
Max