What should be considered when building a server?

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1-800-IT2015-02-06 23:34:00

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1-800-IT, 2015-02-06 23:34:00

One of the projects has matured to its own server: in the long run, buying your own and paying for hosting should be cheaper than renting.

Yes, if you take branded ready-made servers, then there should be no problems with placement at all, but if you assemble it yourself from scratch, what should be taken into account? Specific performance requirements tend to suggest that assembling your own will be cheaper than ready-made universal solutions.

What case to take and what requirements must be met in order for the server to be hosted without any problems?

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Alexey Cheremisin, 2015-02-07
@leahch

Usually they ask for a declaration on means of communication (CCC). Previously, they also required a PCT certificate, but it was abolished.
After all, no one wants the "server" to smoke in a rack with other servers, and the declaration at least confirms that the "server" was assembled by at least some personnel with some kind of technical process and technical verification.

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Melkij, 2015-02-07
@melkij

in the long run, buying your own and paying for accommodation should be cheaper than renting.

Have you calculated TCO well? Did you miss a couple of times? A box of consumables (HDD/SSD), a spare raid controller, spare power supplies and RAM, the services of a specialist who will have to travel to the DC and change the failed hardware, the corresponding downtime of the service? Iron depreciation?
No matter how much he was interested in the topic, the rent was cheaper. It is obviously cheaper for a data center to organize round-the-clock shifts and a replacement fund than for a company to bother with one of its servers. Plus, for the volume of supplies, the data center is given iron prices more interesting than retail ones. And the last point is quite tasty - in a few years you still have the same server and you can upgrade it from your own pocket, and in the case of a lease, this is not your problem, you rent a new one for virtually the same money, but refuse the old one.
The topic has already been answered - each DC has its own conditions. First, select 5 data centers you are interested in, find out their terms of placement. Do not forget to count all the accompanying goodies: habrahabr.ru/post/246419