I am not a techie and thus could any expert please say if there are any data centres in GB offering inexpensive, 'Bring Your Own Server' service with possibility to set up the India holy river water cooled PC into a server for hosting websites? Sorry if this mailing list post is a bit different to the what you are used to.
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Meeku
Hi there,
If I have understood your request correctly, you wish to build a water cooled machine for hosting web sites and the host it in a DC somewhere? If so, yes, all most all DC provide co-lo services (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=co-lo+uk). Where geographically would you like to host it, you would get better recommendations if you let us know?
I know people telling you what to do is annoying, but my two pence would be not to water cool a box and us it to host web sites; that is completely the wrong way of doing things IMO. Not just liquid cooling but also overclocking to host public services. Why are you choosing this method, just out of curiosity? I'm not criticising you but I think you have missed a trick here and perhaps haven't realised it.
On 12 June 2011 11:50, Krishna Birth krishnabirth@gmail.com wrote:
I am not a techie and thus could any expert please say if there are any data centres in GB offering inexpensive, 'Bring Your Own Server' service with possibility to set up the India holy river water cooled PC into a server for hosting websites?
IME (albeit limited), the cost of hosting a website is not the server, but the bandwidth. IMHO if your server is so busy that you need to over-clock and water cool it, then your bandwidth costs are going to be huge - and you can forget any slight savings you may make by buying a cheaper CPU and over-clocking it.
Greg
On 13/06/11 09:40, Greg Thomas wrote:
On 12 June 2011 11:50, Krishna Birthkrishnabirth@gmail.com wrote:
I am not a techie and thus could any expert please say if there are any data centres in GB offering inexpensive, 'Bring Your Own Server' service with possibility to set up the India holy river water cooled PC into a server for hosting websites?
IME (albeit limited), the cost of hosting a website is not the server, but the bandwidth. IMHO if your server is so busy that you need to over-clock and water cool it, then your bandwidth costs are going to be huge - and you can forget any slight savings you may make by buying a cheaper CPU and over-clocking it.
I think you are all missing the point a bit. I could be wrong but I think the objective is to make the server water cooled with some holy water as a kind of marketing gimmick.
There are several technical hurdles to overcome here to make sure it isn't high maintenance (high maintenance is not fun when it is in a data centre) and a non technical one regarding "hole in the rack" type providers not liking you having home built water cooling rigs in their racks (certainly I wouldn't want to be the one with servers underneath this)
The couple of hole in the rack providers I have used have done at least basic scrutineer checks on the machines and I am pretty sure something like this wouldn't pass.
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