Cloud Computing - Colocation Datacenters Introduction

please go to Eli the computer guy calm in order to view schematics code and more for the projects that you are learning about welcome back to today I want to talk about data center colocation of for your cloud infrastructure so we've taught about software as a service and infrastructure of service and platform as a service and metal and as a service and all of these ways that you can offload the types of Technology work that are not important for your company right so again if you're out there and you're a construction company you're trying to sell construction projects you don't want to worry about servers and data centers and dealing with operating systems and all that kind of thing you just want software as a service you just simply want salesforce.com or QuickBooks com or something like that you want to be able to use functionality and features from software but you don't want to worry about the infrastructure and servers that go along with it now if you're with a coding or development company you may want some place to be able to host your code so you'll go and you will write all of your code you want some place to put that code where it will run but you don't want to worry about the servers and you don't want to worry about the routing and you don't want to have to worry about all of that kind of stuff you get all the way to metal as a service and with metal as a service for some reason maybe you need to get down to those root level permissions in an operating system so you need to be able to control user accounts and permissions on that operating system you might even want to be able to go in there and tweak the kernel but again you don't really want to worry about the data center you don't want to really have to worry about buying physical equipment all of that kind of thing so you can go and you can simply rent a dedicated server from one of the service providers well in the same idea in the same concept you may be sitting there going oh oh you know what I want to do I want to create the next face but I didn't want to create the next YouTube and in order to create the next YouTube I need to use a sand or a NAS device that's very specific but I don't want to host that in my own facility I don't want to have to build out a data center I don't want to have to worry about you know HVAC systems and power redundancy and all of that kind of and so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go out and I'm going to buy all of this physical equipment so at this point I am buying all the physical equipment I own all of it the physical equipment I'm responsible for the physical equipment but I'm simply going to go out and rent a place to be able to install this equipment so that people on the internet are able to access it and that's what we get to with colocation data centers essentially these are data centers where you are able to rent space in the data center and rent functionality from the data center and then put your own equipment in there so you can go in there and again if you go into some of these colocation facilities you can see some amazingly high-end equipment you go in there and you're like wow I haven't actually seen one of those things in the wild and then other other racks you can go and you can take a look you go wow I didn't know one of these those things is still running like it's really interesting going to a colocation data center because it is you'll go in there and you'll see a rack of the highest and equipment that money can buy and then another rack right beside it I swear you'll see some piece of crap 10-year old Dell server just chugging along and the reason is is the reason is it because that crappy ass ten year old Dell server is doing whatever the customer needs it to do basically they need a place to be able to have it run they need to be able to connect it to the Internet they need to have power and all those kinds of things but again they don't really care them about the power of the machine it doesn't have to be the latest it doesn't have to be the greatest we just need some place to be able to plug in our machine and make sure that it's running 24 hours a day so we're talking about colocation facilities this is where you own all the equipment you're responsible for all of the equipment you are simply a rate renting space in racks or you're renting entire racks on their own and you're getting a connection to the Internet at whatever speed you're contracted for so basically it's kind of like a condo space for servers and for networking equipment so that's what we're talking about when we're talking about colocation and data centers so the first thing to be thinking about when you're thinking about a center colocation is basically the physical location of where you would like your servers to run there's a couple of things you need to think about when you're thinking about that so when you're thinking about a data center colocation the first thing to realize is that there are a crap-ton of colocation facilities out there in the world so there are colocation facilities all throughout the United States throughout Europe throughout Asia throughout Africa the whole nine yards so when you're thinking about colocation this is not something where there is only one or two vendors out there with a couple of data centers that you can go with there are just there are an enormous number of vendors out there with an enormous number of different options for you so one of the first things that you need to be thinking about is does it matter geographically where your servers are located so you're gonna be thinking about things like a latency and that type of thing so if you're used doing video game servers right latency is very important so you want your servers to be physically as close to your end-user as possible on the other hand if you're doing something like an online backup system you know as long as a systems backup and a reasonable amount of time it doesn't really matter right so if you're doing an online backup system you might be able to put your servers anywhere in the world that you want based off of things like regulatory compliance and costs in that type of thing so the first thing you need to be thinking about is as far as your end-users are concerned doesn't matter where your servers are physically located the next thing you need to be thinking about is how are you going to be maintaining your servers once you spin them up and are they close enough to you to actually be able to maintain your server so it is very important to understand here this is not metal as a service right so metal as a service is where you rent a dedicated server and if something happens in that dedicated server then the tech support for the company that you're dealing with has to deal with it remember these are your physical machines these are your physical machines if a cpu fail fans on one of your physical machines you are responsible for it and so this is something that you really do have to think about right so if you go with a data set that's within half-an-hour of you and and something crashes then it's rather easy for you to be able to get in your car and go and try to try to fix whatever's going on on the other hand again if you pick a data center that's closer to your end users but maybe far away from you then that means you have to travel to wherever that data center is to repair the equipment or you have to have some kind of maintenance contract with some kind of let's say IT consultancy or managed service provider to go and repair that equipment so that is something that is very important to be thinking about is when you think about spinning up your equipment somewhere if something fails if that stupid-ass CPU fail fan fails how are you going to get your systems back online and again if your equipment you know is halfway around the country or halfway around the world and you literally have to hop on a plane in order to repair that equipment that can run in you into a lot of problems so that's something to be thinking about then past that when you're going out and you're thinking about renting in a colocation facility you're going to be renting about what is called you so you you is a standard unit of measurement as far as rack servers are concerned so whenever you're dealing with rack mounted equipment whether it's rack-mounted servers whether it's rack mounted switches or other networking equipment there will be a size of that equipment in you so normal size servers you'll hear of 1u servers or 1u size networking equipment or whatever and so that is a unit of measurement larger servers such as let's say servers that hold a lot of hard drives let's say storage servers those might be for you pieces of equipment so when you're going to go out and rent a space and a colocation facility you need to think about how many you you need to be thinking about how much space you need so basically a lot of times you'll actually go out and for me I actually had my servers and a colocation facility for awhile when I started the business and so it was $100 per month per you so I went in with two 1u servers so that means I had to use two use of space and so that cost me $200 so when you go out to read space you can either rent buy to you sometimes you can rent by the quarter rack sometimes you can write by the half rack and sometimes you can rent by the full rack but something to be thinking about is if you rent rent by the full rack or the quarter rack or the half rack is just making sure you know how many you are in that rack so so when you have a server rack different server racks have different sizes so the standard size is like a 42 u server racks of theoretically you could put in 42 one years use servers theoretically but one of the things ever to be thinking about with whatever colocation facility you go with the rack sizes may be different might be a 50 you rack or maybe it's a 35 year or 30 60 you rack I suppose and so when you go out to rent a full rack you do need to remember how much space is in that actual rack and then we thinking about how much space you need for your equipment so the first thing you need to be thinking about is how many you do you need past that is then power consumption so power consumption is one of those things a lot of us don't really think about when we're spinning up servers right you plug your server your ploy your computer into the wall you turn it on right as long as it turns on you have enough power you don't really think about it much more than that right well one of the things to be thinking about when you go into a colocation facility is that they part of the contract is they will give you so many amps so one amp five amp 10 a 30 amp so when you put a piece of equipment into the rack that will have a certain amount of power draw it might be half an amp it might be five amps right depending on the piece of equipment so if you have something like a switch or a router or rather just a normal crappy server or something like that you might have like a one amp power drop on the other hand if you have some big piece of storage equipment that has a lot of hard drive spinning and doing whatever it is that they do you may have a lot larger power draw you may have up to something like a 4 amp power drop so one of the things that you need to be thinking about is what is the power consumption of the equipment that you're going to be putting into the colocation facility and then how much power are you actually buying right if you buy a 1 amp of power and your equipment requires 10 amps of power is basic math your equipment isn't going to work and so this can be a frustrating thing especially for new folks now when you're trying to figure out the actual power draw of equipment it can't be a little bit confusing because again when you have equipment depending on what load they're under depending on what additional things you've added to that equipment do you have GPU cards in your equipment how many hard drives do you have spending your equipment do you have platter based hard drives or you have solid-state drives you can have a lot of different results for what the power draw might be I would argue you can get a little device that'll actually show you how much amps how many amps your equipment is pulling I would say that you should probably purchase one of those devices plug your equipment into that device to make sure what the power draw is if if you don't have that or if you don't have the equipment yet then you can call up the vendors you can communicate with the vendors and try to see what the expected amp usage will be and so this is an important thing to be thinking about when you're gonna be actually going out there and renting from a colocation facility past that you then have the bandwidth that you are allocated so whenever you're dealing with bandwidth first you're going to get the speed so what is what is the total amount of concurrent speed that you can use is it a hundred megabits per second is it a gig per second is it ten gigs per second is it literally almost unlimited you might go with a data center that gives you almost unlimited but one of the important things to be thinking about is what speed are you going to be getting out of your colocation facility so if you're doing basic things such as you're doing an email server oh I don't know things like email servers that type of thing maybe a 100 megabit per second connection it is more than enough for you on the other hand if you're doing some kind of like video streaming service then you may want a gigabit per second or all the way up to 10 gigabit per second connections this is something to think about and one thing to be thinking about is you can have load balancing within your equipment within your rack so let's say you rent a whole rack you have a 10 gigabit per second connection coming in and then what you can do is you might have let's for different of video streaming servers and then you can have load balancing as users or coming in to view content they can be load balanced across those multiple servers and so each one of those servers who knows each server made max at a one gigabit per second connection so let's say the servers have one gig cards in them so you have four servers with one gig cards you have a total 10 gig pipe coming in and then what can happen is you can have a physical load balancer then the load balance is to those different servers again to distribute the load so one of the things you need to be thinking about is what is the total bandwidth that you are going to be getting out of your colocation facility again that can that can run you into problems and one of the things to be thinking about too is not only how much bandwidth you're currently using but can you scale up into the future so with some colocation facilities they'll give you 100 megabits per second and if you want 10 gigabits per second you simply have to pay for you just it's a credit card my creation you know you swipe your credit card now you got 10 gigabits per second one thing you have to be careful about though some colocation facilities facilities you get a hundred megabit per second connection and that's all you will ever get and so at that point it is no longer a credit card migration it is literally if you need more bandwidth you need to move all of your equipment to an entirely entirely different colocation facility so with colocation facilities just like a lot of other things I tell you about when you're purchasing equipment think about what the upgrade or the scaling strategy is gonna be right it's like okay I need 100 megabits per second now how much wouldn't you give it per second cost me and then see if that's reasonable again you got to look at costs right even if they offer a gigabit per second maybe it's a stupid cost but then you say okay is 10 gigabits available is is is more than that available basically you see what's available what their plans are to increase things like bandwidth and see if that seems reasonable for you because the last thing that you want to do is the last thing is you know you spit up an entire rack of equipment you can figure everything and then if you outro your colocation facility and that can be a really a big problem past the general speed you then come into the question of usage so depending on what colocation facility you know with this is all whatever's in the contract some colocation facilities allowing you to basically have unlimited usage so you get that speed and you more or less get unlimited usage other colocation facilities they will meter you and they will tell you you know this is how much it cost per terabyte of bandwidth that you use and then you sit there and you look at that price and you see if it's reasonable so that is something to be thinking about even with data centers usage cost may apply past that you there's then the question of IP addresses so how many IP addresses are they going to offer you so with whatever colocation facility you go with and whatever plan you go with they may give you one IP address or they may give you up to 30 or more or you may it may be able to buy numerous IP addresses so basically they can offer you internet accessible IP addresses internet facing IP addresses and so something to think about is okay do you want your equipment behind some kind of NAT firewall so a network address translation you have one IP address that hits that firewall router and then behind that is your own IP address scheme and then you route traffic however you want to route traffic or do you want all of your servers to be internet facing and so people can connect to them from the outside world and so that's something to think about is how many IP addresses are you going to get and then again like with things like the servers then you have to think about again how many network cards are gonna be in each server how many internet facing you know network cards are you going to have think about all the ports that you're going to use and then figure out is that going to be good for you past that when you're talking about bandwidth to is a question is going to be things like routing protocols so again you're now in a data center so you're now in a data center you're playing with the big boys the big dawgs whether you're not there you're not you fully appreciate that and so one of the things to be asking is can you use routing protocol such as BGP so border gateway protocol is the major protocol for basically internet o facing equipment so a lot of times most people don't actually use with deal with a BGP protocol but again if you have a whole rack of equipment if you have a whole rack of equipment you may have you know a chunk of that being your Cisco Networking gear or some other enterprise class networking gear and you can actually use BGP with some of these colocation facilities so that's one of the things to be thinking about too is basically what what protocols do you need do you need BGP or do you just basically need a an IP address and you don't really care about anything past that from that you go into security so one of the things to be thinking about with these data centers is security is still very important so when you're thinking about security in a data center do you realize if you do something such as renting one or two a use of space and a rack well that means you're going to have a lot of other people in that rack with you again so when I was renting use at a colocation facility close to me basically you know I was renting to use out of a 42 you rack and so there were another 20 or 30 customers using the exact same rack that I was in well yeah so just imagine you have a rack where 20 other people have access to the rack that your equipment is in so it means all of your cables everything that you set up some stupid little you know junior level level technician comes in unplugs the wrong thing and all of a sudden your infrastructure getting yeah it goes offline and this is something that you do need to be thinking about as far as security and all that is concerned is if you have 20 other companies in there the rack with you that you're renting space out of just realize that when their technicians come in when they're unplugging equipment they could unplug your equipment if they if they hired a hacker who decides to start plugging in USB sticks into the the random servers in that rack you actually really do have a massive physical security vulnerability so that's something to be thinking about that's one reason why people will decide to rent either half racks or full racks for themselves so if you rent a half rack or a full rack they will have doors and generally they will actually have keys that you can lock so when you when you ring your own rack or half rack that is all you it has a door on it and it actually it has a key on that door so it can be locked up so nobody else can get and actually deal with your servers and so this might be an important thing depending on what you're doing again just imagine 20 other companies 20 other people hiring complete morons that those morons are going to come in and whenever they're doing their maintenance for their people's equipment again at any point they can pop out a little USB stick shove it into some some random server and again it would be very hard to even detect that that's happened so that's one thing to be thinking about Security's do you want a basic door and then beyond that if you're really dealing with compliance issues you can actually go to these data centers and for the right amount of money for the right amount of money they will literally fence off areas of the data center for you so let's say you're gonna you're going to rent five racks per month so you're gonna have five racks full of equipment you want to make sure it's there's physical security around those pieces of equipment they will actually build a full it's just a chain link fence one of those crappy chain link fences that's what they do it's a crappy cane link fence then you have a lock whatever gonna walk you one on there and then that adds an additional level of physical security for you when you're thinking about you know what kind of security you need for your data center equipment past that one of the things you need to be thinking about is how you're going to be interacting with your equipment if there is a problem if there's a meltdown right we all hope that servers do not crash for random-ass reasons but of course they do crash for random-ass reasons and if your server crashes you know whether you can get to SSH or Remote Desktop Protocol or any of your remote management tools that is a big question so one of the things that many of these data centers offer is they actually offer what's called IP KVM services so KVM is keyboard video mouse and so what they can they can offer you is they can actually have their technicians go to your equipment actually plug in these little kid I peek AVM devices and then you're able to remotely a manage your equipment from wherever the word in the world you are all the way down to the post level so you know you reboot the server and then it comes up with the boot sequence and all of that kind of thing if you use something like IP KVM you're able to then access all of those low-level configurations and make might be able to restore your equipment that way so that's something to think about and then the final thing to be thinking about when you're thinking about going to a colocation data center is how long will it take them to provision your space and your bandwidth so the provisioning process is the actual delivery process right so you walk in you see the colocation facility you see all the stuff you're like great I want this they say no problem it'll take eight weeks and that's something to think about again like how long do you have before you need your quickness spun up doesn't need to be spun up in a couple of days is six weeks good for you this is this is something that you need to consider depending on what data center you're going into depending on what their compliance issues and all that kind of thing is literally going into a data center some data centers you can go into the next day other data centers you were literally going to be waiting weeks until you can go into them and especially if you need to have fences built within the data center or any of other kind of specialized stuff for you that can take a longer time so these are some of the things that you need to be thinking about if you're thinking about going into a colocation facility and just again to have in mind things like how much space do you need how much power you're gonna need what do you really think your bandwidth requirements are going to be you know routing requirements is it going to grow with you these are some of the considerations you really have to think about before you sign a contract so with all of that let's go over the computer so I can show you some of the options that are available when you're thinking about colocation facilities now to be clear I just kind of picked these options all willy-nilly I am not recommend being anybody here I just picked these options because they give you an overview of the different things that you should be looking at when you're looking at a colocation facility so by all means go with these people or don't go with these people I am not recommending it one way or the other just to be clear here so with that let's go over the computer and I can show you kind of some more of this these things you need to be thinking about when you're going to be renting in a colocation facility so this is the type of equipment that you might use in a colocation facility so sight Knology creates a lot of a very high quality network attached storage devices so this might be a good option for you if you're trying to create the next you tube or basically you're trying to create some kind of infrastructure that needs a lot of storage and so one of the things I have like this rack station RS one six one nine x s plus one you rack mount flagship aims for file collaboration and high for performance computation so obviously this is not a one quote Linux machine this is not a quote unquote Windows machine you simply buy any sign ology you put your hard drives in there you do all the configurations and then you deploy it into the real world so if we go here some of the things we need to take a look at again as far as things like CPU and all of that we don't really care about that for a colocation facility the main things that we were looking at is things like the power consumption and the use so if we keep scrolling down and go past the file sir file systems all that kind of stuff so we're going to be looking at here is the appearance and so we're going to look at the form factor the are you and so we can see this particular piece of equipment takes 1u of space so that's gonna be the important thing again you're gonna need to rent as many use as is required so this one needs 1u it tells you some stuff about the way it also talks about the rack installation so if you're gonna need something like 8 kit so this is something important to be thinking about is whenever you're going to have networking equipment that's going to go into a rack then you're most likely going to need something like a rail kit to be able to install it into the rack so when you buy that 1u server all you get is the one u server and then you basically you screw the rail kit to the side of the 1u server and that allows you to put it into the rack itself so this is one of those things to be thinking about it actually shows you all that stuff so you've got all that kind of thing there and then it does go and it does talk about power I'm not going to discuss how you figure out the amps in this particular video because it can actually get pretty squirrelly in the real world like figuring out what the actual amp usage will be depends a lot on a lot of things and so I don't want to muck it up here but basically we can see this has a power supply of 150 watts it has a hundred volt to 200 full AC and then it talks about the power consumption here and then this is the actual power consumption of the device itself so theoretically sixty eight point sixty eight watts when it's being accessed and thirty four point seven eight once when it's in hibernation so just realize here you take this information and you take this information and that's supposed to give you how many amps you're gonna use but again in the real world that can get a little squirrely if we go over and we take a look and another piece of equipment so again this is the rack station rs40 one 7 X S Plus blah blah blah we can go and we can take a look at the specs and then again like I say we can scroll down here we can take a look at the appearance so form factor so this is a 3u device and so that's going to be something there neck gotta need to be thinking about so if you're using a storage device you have to think about how many hard drives it can take in store you have to think about power consumption you have to think about use that how many use so on and so forth so past that we can go and we can actually look at some of these colocation facilities so this is a box ility again I just randomly found this and you can come here and you can take a look at their different colocation facilities and again you may have colocation facilities and places thinking about so Los Angelos Ashburn Miami that sounds pretty normal London sounds normal Amsterdam may sound normal but they have things like Bucharest like oh that that's a place you can go to right Vienna Frankfurt so it is important to be thinking about is different companies offer these data centers in different locations then past that you're gonna select how many you you're gonna need so are you need 10 you so this particular company will rent 10 you in a full rack 20 you in a full rack or a full rack cabinet so we'll simply select that and then over here you can go for your commitment right so a one-year commitment price per month two year commitment or three year commitment so just like any other contract thing you have to think about is how long do you want to be locked into this contract the longer you're locked into the contract the better the price will be right so on and so forth so we can go here and then let's say we can click on Ashburn Reston and with that that shows us the two facilities and Ashburn and Reston so this is Virginia so this would be relatively close to me I click on Miami it shows me the options in Miami Amsterdam shows me officers there Bucharest shows me the options there and again this is something to be really thinking about things like price so if you're an Ashburn or Reston one of their data centers will cost you $2,200 a month a different data center will cost you $1500 a month if you go to Bucharest you can get the data center a full rack down to seven hundred and seventeen dollars per month because do you remember for these data centers they are doing things like paying for rent so if if they're in a more expensive area rent and all that kind of thing is going to cost them more money power is going to cost them money right so something to think about is you might want to put your equipment in a less expensive area if it doesn't really matter to you or realize you don't want to be too cheap so let's say if you're in if you're in DC the DC area anything oh I'll just put my equipment in Bucharest because it's less expensive there do remember if your CPU fan fails that means you've got to fly to Bucharest so I know just take a look at Ashburn go take a look at the expensive one here oh one thing here is again delivery how long it takes to actually provision the space for you so here it's five to six weeks so if you're gonna try to go into the aspirin locations five to six weeks if you're gonna try to go into the rest and virginius three to four weeks if we go over to Bucharest again you know one of there's the Bucharest one is seven days or left the other Bucharest one is two months so again you can see even with this single company in a single area you can see there is a large difference in how long it will take to actually provision the space that you're gonna be renting so we're gonna go here and then we're gonna click on the details oh so we click on the details and CIN going to give us a bunch of information here and we start taking a look at this says the data center says the location where it is in the map space full depth 19-inch cabinet minimum forty to you so you're going to get at least forty to you so that's important for you guarantees 99.9999% power using in both lines who's here shows you some different things then let's see here power circuits so this is important thing to be looking at so you got two lines a prophet a primary plus B redundant at thirty and each so you get a lot of amps here so that's the thing 120 volts if that matters to you and we can go down and take a look a lot of the different information here they're their service level agreement different things with network access you know what your speed is so it's connected so as an internet provider so it has a direct access to premium networks ten gigabit per second download and gaming theoretically but the connection speed is actually one gigabit per second so it's connected it's connected to equipment that can theoretically give you ten gigabits per second they've actually got a one gigabit per second connection speed and then here bandwidth packages so how much it costs for bandwidth for here you're gonna be paying per terabyte and here it's not actually that bad so five dollars and fifty cents per by all traffic though incoming and outgoing so you need to think about that we go down VLAN routing IP addresses so basically how it's gonna deal with IP addresses for you and different things you can also get a denial of service protection some other things here so this is one of the providers you can go with again a little bit bit expensive but you can get to power lines at 30 amp e you've got a 42 you rack and you get a lot of these other things if we go over we can take a look at a different company so this is colocation America right so if you're like well Wow Eli you know I was interested I was interested in this until I said I was gonna cost me $1400 well again remember colocation facility is like everything there is all kinds of different options out there so with colocation America you can rent one you of space to use a space 1/4 rack which is 10 use of space half a rack which is 21 use a space or a full rack which is 42 years of space so here you might get into a price point that you like better but as with all things a different price point gives you different things so for a 1u of space it'll only cost you $75 a month so you can put that one you sine ology storage device in there a one year use you on Zeon servers so on and so forth for that you get 10 terabytes of bandwidth and then as far as power is concerned you get 2 amps of power now to be clear 2 amps of power should be fine but again depending on your equipment maybe not who knows and then ipv4 you get one usable IP address give you some more of this you know gig a poor uplink some other things $99 a month you get to use a space for only a little bit more you to use you get the same amps you still get one usable IP address so that might run into problems to you so again that's one thing you have to be thinking about like again so a 2-u piece of equipment could go in there and then you only need one IP address for a 2-u piece of equipment but if you have two pieces of equipment that are one you each then only having one IP address might run you into some problems so somebody think about you go up to the corner rack 399 25 megabit per second dedicated so there it looks like the bandwidth you don't have a cap on bandwidth but you only get 25 megabits per second so again depending what you're doing an email server that might be fine a real-time communication servers that might suck you now you get 5 amps of power and then you get 5 usable IP addresses you up to 1/4 rack you get 50 megabits per second dedicated 20 amps so now you're actually getting some decent power and then you get a 13 reusable IP addresses and then you go up to a full rack $999 again you're at 20 amps and then you get 29 I P addresses and so this is one of those things that you should be thinking about and realizing you know there's different there's different benefits and different costs for whatever it is that you're looking for if we go past that one of the things to be thinking about again is the security of your equipment so with this particular company Equinix Equinix just to show you they offer some security for your equipment other companies might not offer so they have private cages so build the order with space assign based on the power allocations and cabinet quality quantity mesh walls demarcation rack and patch panels locking door a lot of rack and fiber raceway up to first cabinet position or up to 10 feet security accessories included dedicated cameras and biometric hand scanners right so if you go with them not only and they're going to build you the the fence and all that kind of thing but then you get dedicated cameras and things like biometric and scanners that might be good if you're dealing with compliance issues cabinets again it steel frames with lockable fully ventilated doors so this should be the pretty normal thing so that's your base level of security in any kind of these colocation facilities if you rent a whole rack it should be lockable and then here you can actually have Suites again if you're getting got to get really fancy customized areas fully enclosed by solid partitions walls doors cable trays for power and cable security and PDUs cross connects runs to patch panel and designated cabinets so again depending on your particular situation you know simply having a rack that has a lock on it that might be fine or you might want a cage so you have a cage and that basically has a fence and that might be fine or you might want full physical walls around your equipment and so again this is the different type of security options that different companies may or may not provide then we can go over to colocation this was just a curious one this one I don't really know where they're at I actually pulled them up on the internet and I thought their pricing strategy was kind of curious but otherwise I literally have no idea where these people aren't like you click on pricing you just go down here and you click on home you're here if you get going contact again like that's a question like no seriously seriously what is their address and literally don't know where these people are but anyways again you can see here these folks have different options they have a starter rack and gigapower Iraq and attendee duo rack so wherever they are in the world right two hundred and ninety five dollars a month you got unlocking half rack 10 amp of power 120 volts ac 100 megabit per second Ethernet up and down hundred megabit per second of BKP for so these people will give you a BGP access and then I talked about having their megawatt diesel generator backup power again somebody be thinking about is the backup power if power fails for said facility and then something to look at here is they have a one-time install fee $500 so again it's things to be thinking about with prices is you may be paying per you you may be paying for bandwidth you may be paying for IP addresses what our setup costs these are all things you should consider for $500 a month you get a 20 amps of power you get a full rack so this is $500 a month so this is life this is half the price of the last place you get a gigabit per second Ethernet up and down again you get the the BGP backbone and that has a $600 installation fee and then for $3,000 a month you get dual locking full racks so you would actually get two full racks you will get 10 gigabits per second of bandwidth and then you also have an install fee of $3,000 so you know depending on where the hell these people are because I honestly don't know like I literally I have no idea where the hell these people are but you know again that's the kind of thing that might be valuable for you so these are some of the options that are available out there and so kind of the things to be thinking about if you're thinking about going with a colocation facility so those are some things to be thinking about if you're looking at colocation again the value of a colocation facility is you get to have your own equipment so you physically own all of your equipment you can you can modify it however you like and basically all you're doing is you're renting space you're renting bandwidth and you're renting power from the colocation facility and so you can have full enterprise class equipment running for your cup for your company even if you're literally just working out of the basement and so again this is an important thing to think about in the modern world like if you have if you're creating the next Instagram you're creating the next great startup company right you do you may be working out of your basement you may be working out of your garage but you can buy you know enterprise class equipment install it into a colocation facility and as far as your physical then tech infrastructure is concerned you're you can be a world-class operation and this is an important thing to be thinking about this modern world of technology businesses where again you can have a couple of grody geeks working out of their basement but their infrastructure can literally be world-class because it doesn't matter where you're doing the physical work anymore as long as you have the right type of equipment and it's being serviced in the appropriate way so this is something to be thinking about again I do like colocation facilities for a lot of startup companies because when you start looking at cloud services it is important to think about the price point for the different things you're going to be buying from cloud services so to be clear if you're gonna use a Azure or AWS or take your lotion or anything like that when it comes to compute and when it comes to database database services you cannot beat the price of cloud services again pure compute and pure things like database services AWS and as your the price point is just amazing right run your wet run your websites from AWS and as your run all that kind of you know database stuff from AWS and Azure but something to realize is that when you start getting into data intensive tasks such as data storage or using bandwidth so if you're gonna creating another YouTube as your an AWS suck they suck the cost the cost for storage and the cost for bandwidth usage on things like AWS and as your is brutal is absolutely brutal so if you try to spin up an alternative be YouTube using pure AWS or as your infrastructure frankly you're gonna go bankrupt I mean there's just there's just not enough money out there but something to be thinking about I think any go psychology or some other kind of San or nas type equipment and for a hundred thousand dollars for for the for the initial outlay it'll be expensive but you can spend a hundred thousand dollars to create a nice storage infrastructure you then put that into a facility that's gonna cost you a couple thousand dollars a month and now the upfront outlay will be more expensive but as you have users start actually using your service over time the the price where the cost to actually provide services to your end-users will be a hell of a lot less expensive if you're using again something like a colocation facility and your own equipment and so this is where you need to be thinking again and the whole idea of creating cloud-based architectures what you need to really be thinking about is you know what are your requirements you need to be thinking about costs you need to be thinking about regulations and all that kind of stuff and then you need think about okay what is the best way to build this infrastructure so my active directory so if my active directory my email services that's all got just gonna be on my local land right but then for the actual web sites the web sites for my company get to create an alternative YouTube the sites those are gonna be up on cloud services AWS or as your something like that but then when I do a video embed that video embed is then going to point back to my servers in my colocation facility right and so that's where you start thinking about the any of these these these cloud architectures about how how do you utilize everything most appropriately for what you're currently doing so this is why I say the idea the concept of keeping everything private on your own network now is idiotic but also the concept of putting everything up no clock it's also probably pretty idiotic right you know you look at these things and you think ok how how can i leverage all of these different options to give me the best performance and the best price for whatever it is that I'm trying to accomplish and so that's where some things in Active Directory all that kind of stuff you'll keep that on your local land possibly email services Salesforce things like that maybe that'll be off off in office 365 you'll just rent those services then again for your for your web sites and all that you'll build some kind of cloud infrastructure but then you can have that cloud infrastructure and some of that cloud infrastructure then points back to the servers and services that you've created a colocation facility and that's that's what your architecture starts to look like and that's when you start to can do some really really cool things so as always I enjoy doing this video and again if you haven't looked at colocation facilities definitely take a look at colocation facilities I'm telling you I've seen a couple of startup company I've seen a couple of startup companies where I swear I swear if they had just done the outlay on physical hardware and put their stuff into a colocation facility I still think they would have been around but because they went pure AWS they went bankrupt because of course they did data storage and bandwidth on AWS is brutally expensive so anyways with that I'll see you folks later

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Length: 45min 53sec (2753 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 24 2019