Power failover and HVAC systems are on-going costs that usually exceed server hardware costs (both initial and replacement) by a long margin. Over a three-year period you'll probably get to spend 1% on actual server/networking hardware.
I'm just pulling that number out of fat air, but you'll be spending far more on other things.
Power failover and HVAC systems are on-going costs that usually exceed server hardware costs (both initial and replacement) by a long margin. Over a three-year period you'll probably get to spend 1% on actual server/networking hardware.
This is true... if you are running on 10 year old servers, and brand-new power/hvac equipment. On a more reasonable replacement schedule, if you pay what I pay for power/cooling/rack and what I pay for hardware, you are closer to half and half.
Now, I pay a lot more than google does for both power and harware- but I suspect that the google discount on datacenter space is vastly greater than the google discount on hardware. If nothing else, california power is like 2x power anywhere else. Also, i'm strictly retail when it comes to datacenter space. I rent 23Kw usable from Coresite... meaning I'm renting like 28Kw capacity... so I'm not a single U customer, but I'm still firmly 'retail'
You can alter this quite a bit just by going from X series to L series CPUs or by replacing your hardware more or less often. (I'm on L and E series xeons.)
But, anyhow, from that? I'd think that google probably spends more on hardware than on power/cooling/etc...
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Power failover and HVAC systems are on-going costs that usually exceed server hardware costs (both initial and replacement) by a long margin. Over a three-year period you'll probably get to spend 1% on actual server/networking hardware.
I'm just pulling that number out of fat air, but you'll be spending far more on other things.
This is true... if you are running on 10 year old servers, and brand-new power/hvac equipment. On a more reasonable replacement schedule, if you pay what I pay for power/cooling/rack and what I pay for hardware, you are closer to half and half.
Now, I pay a lot more than google does for both power and harware- but I suspect that the google discount on datacenter space is vastly greater than the google discount on hardware. If nothing else, california power is like 2x power anywhere else. Also, i'm strictly retail when it comes to datacenter space. I rent 23Kw usable from Coresite... meaning I'm renting like 28Kw capacity... so I'm not a single U customer, but I'm still firmly 'retail'
You can alter this quite a bit just by going from X series to L series CPUs or by replacing your hardware more or less often. (I'm on L and E series xeons.)
But, anyhow, from that? I'd think that google probably spends more on hardware than on power/cooling/etc...