#colocation on Hacker News

3 stories tagged colocation, newest first.

Screenshot of colaptop.pages.dev: Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers

Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers (colaptop.pages.dev)

358 points by argentum47 6 months ago | 212 comments

Landing page for CoLaptop, an Amsterdam-based service offering colocation of old laptops as always-online servers in US and European datacenters with Hetzner.

colocation laptops self-hosting hetzner

Screenshot of si.inc: Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining (si.inc)

392 points by nee1r 1 year ago | 267 comments

Standard Intelligence blog post describing how they built a 30-petabyte hard drive storage cluster in a San Francisco colocation center for under $500k to store video pretraining data.

data-storage hard-drives colocation pretraining

Screenshot of blog.railway.com: So you want to build your own data center

So you want to build your own data center (blog.railway.com)

547 points by dban 1 year ago | 252 comments

Railway blog post on why the company moved off Google Cloud Platform and how it approached building its own data center infrastructure.

data-centers railway google-cloud bare-metal

#colocation on Hacker News

Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers(colaptop.pages.dev)

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining(si.inc)

So you want to build your own data center(blog.railway.com)

Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers (colaptop.pages.dev)

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining (si.inc)

So you want to build your own data center (blog.railway.com)