The original post: /r/datacenter by /u/DeepRobin on 2024-09-15 19:21:38.
Hey all,
I have a small one-man IT-company (so no office / home office) primarly hosting it’s and customer stuff in rented data centers.
Do you know about the costs to build and operate an datacenter?
Is it possible to build a small data center (with all costs - maybe without servers)
Do you think it is possible to build a reasonably professional data center for little money?
An Autonomous System Number does already exists.
For example, I would have a plot of land in Germany & assuming everything has already been approved.
I would mainly use ARM CPUs for Energy consumption purposes and maybe some Arista routers for low-latency.
Would you say it is possible with
- build a “good” DC with a maximum of 100 000,00 €? If yes, how?
- to build a “good” DC with a maximum of € 1,000,000.00? If yes, how?
And do you think DCs are still profitable in Germany, as they are currently springing up like mushrooms? In my region, only the internet connection is probably not the best.
Is it even possible to operate this thing as a “one-man-show” if there is not very critical business data in (e.g. hosting some websites)?