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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: rack power question
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Joe Greco wrote: Charging substantially less for rack space, even offset by higher costs for power, would encourage a lot of colo customers to "spread the load" around and not feel as obligated to maximize the use of space. That would in turn reduce the tendency for there to be excessive numbers of hot spots.
When I'm shopping for colo that's pretty much the way I look at it. Power determines space. I need 80,000W of power at the breaker, so I need 800sqftx15$ in facility A, and [email protected]$ in facility B. I can fit my 8 racks into either the 320sqft or into the 800. If I'm doing the 800, I'll probably spend a bit more up front and use 12 or 14 racks, to keep my density down. A bit more cost up front, but in the grand scheme of things 4 or 6 extra racks ($6 to 10,000$) don't directly hurt to much. (80kW worth of power usually means you've got well north of $2M worth of hardware and software being stuffed into the space in my experience..but maybe that's because we're an Oracle shop. ;) Of course, I suppose for those customers still doing super-low-density boxes (webhosting with lots and lots of desktops), I suppose that model wouldn't work as well. ramble. .d --- david raistrick http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html [email protected] http://www.expita.com/nomime.html
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