Littlejd97

Thanks for the input. I was thinking R610 because we don’t really need much disk, just ram and CPU mostly currently. Any other reason for a R710? I don’t want to waste rack space. The AWS bill is going to be $4,000/month. Due to the nature of our product, we are actually giving everyone silo’d environments (separate database, application code instances, etc) using docker. 1. Well, we are a team of like 5 people currently. I’d like to say I’m a pretty smart guy, however no I’ve never run a data center. But I do manage all of our AWS infrastructure, I’ve built several PCs. I actually simulated the physical environment on my computer with virtualization including network configuration with pfsense. 2. Backup plan is probably move back to AWS 3. Our network security probably isn’t the best, but I don’t think it’s too bad either. In a physical environment, I was thinking I’d use pfsense for the router with two vlans, one for the servers main nic, and another for the DRAC. The drac would have no internet access in or out. Only via VPN. And I would basically do load balanced port forwarding to all the servers in the other VLAN for network (80,443) ports. All other access would be over a VPN. And we might grab a UPS 4. There are so many R610 and R410s on eBay for cheap, spare parts plan is to just dump the old one and swap in a new. 5. We got a quote for collocation for $500/month with 50mbps internet and 21Us local in Austin (short drive time)

We will be using a docker swarm or kubernetes which will quickly be able to relaunch the containers on the remaining hardware assuming one died, in which case we’d then go buy another and slap it back in. The “Plan B” is to overprovision. We could also attach EC2 instances to our swarm in theory

Hey guys. As we all know, we've seen Linus find old server hardware and try to game on it for cheap. Of course, gaming on an old server doesn't really make sense, as that is far from its intended use. But what do you guys think about getting old server hardware and using as an actual server for production environments. This probably isn't the best forum, but we've been running our server infrastructure on AWS and our bill is going to be around $4000. If we spend $1,500 on old server hardware (such as 3 Dell R610 with dual 6-core 3.07GHz Xeon X5675 and 32GB of ram), and colocation, does anyone see an issue with that?