Yeah it was a long time ago. I worked there in, I wanna say 2006ish. I left shortly after working there for a year.
Jason Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 22, 2016, at 7:03 PM, James Dugger <james.dug...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm a developer working at GoDaddy on one of those shared hosting platform > teams. Haven't seen any "PC's on bakers racks" Those must be a thing of the > past . I do see Dell PowerEdge rack servers "fully pluggable". We don't buy > servers in single quantities, we buy whole preconfigured 42U racks at time. > The racks are shipped directly to our datacenters, in AZ, East Coast US, > Europe, and Asia. > > > Our cloud offering just went live yesterday at prices comparable to > DigitalOcean. We are partnering with Bitnami for packaged server builds and > this cloud is connected to our domain services. See reviews below. > http://www.techmeme.com/160321/p6#a160321p6 > > http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/21/godaddy-debuts-aws-style-servers-and-apps-to-build-test-and-scale-cloud-services/ > > Somethings can be more important than just cheap, like uptime and speed. > GoDaddy ranks in the top 3 or 4 of the fastest providers for products both on > Windows and Linux platforms. > > http://cloudspectator.com/web-host-providers-performance-ranking-a-six-month-summary/ > > > >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Sesso <se...@djsesso.com> wrote: >> yeah I worked at godaddy when they had those little boxes. Yes, the industry >> has gone mostly virtual which is understandable. However, there are still >> clients that want actual hardware. I sell just as much hardware in my own >> business as I do Virtual. My day job sells about the same and we actually >> own our own datacenters. The clients that buy hardware are usually large >> companies that can afford it. You are right, many clients don’t need it but >> they want it lol. They are signing 3 year contracts on these servers also. >> >> >> >> Jason >> >> > On Mar 22, 2016, at 12:45 PM, Michael Butash <mich...@butash.net> wrote: >> > >> > That (simple/dumb customers), and most of their customer base being that >> > really *does not need* dedicated services for what they are doing. It >> > doesn't meet their business model, or technology models around that >> > business when consumer cores are still 2-4 per cpu, and you're seeing >> > 12-16 per socket, dual socket, and most can take 192-384gb of ram. >> > >> > TLDR: >> > >> > Most people probably have this delusion that a "dedicated server" is just >> > that, a server, but the reality was GD's (and others like them) bare metal >> > servers were just generic consumer Shuttle SFF pc boxes on bakers racks as >> > far as the eye can see, which meant no IPMI, remote console (outside an >> > os), absolutely nothing pluggable aside from usb, and rather a pain to >> > deal with provisioning or maintenance-wise. When someone's system died, a >> > kid in a dc got paged out to rip the box apart and troubleshoot them, >> > which isn't easy on consumer gear. They were great when launched in ~2004 >> > for cost/power/heat, and up until fairly recent still were, but proved >> > ultimately unsustainable as any part that failed required some dc tech to >> > perform surgery on a SFF case packed with parts, even raid cards, which is >> > simply never fun. It also ends up costing far too much to maintain over >> > time in total opex at scale. >> > >> > Even then providing dedicated hardware was a challenge even looking at >> > real (rack) servers then as an evolution, dealing with ipmi quirks, >> > securing networking from root-access users locally (harder than one might >> > think across various network hardware), that once handed off to the >> > customer simply went out the window to keep them from shooting themselves >> > in the foot like not backing up their own server or say, doing rm on root, >> > or trying to arp poison/mitm the lan around them and drawing security ire. >> > >> > Even if hardware were "dedicated", industry movement is to simply give a >> > vm in dedicated hardware, adding a hypervisor shim for control-plane on >> > hardware, at very least making inventory, provisioning, maintenance, and >> > more importantly, network control at a raw hardware level easy. It also >> > allows providers to bill for usage vs. blanket floodgates, so hey, if you >> > want to pay for a whole server of 24 cores and 192gb of ram on a 10g link, >> > they'll sell you the cycles/bandwidth for sure, and it'll be about the >> > cost of 8 of those shuttles "dedicated" boxes. >> > >> > For GD, they could also get rid of data centers full of odd bakers racks >> > and dumpters full of old/odd/non-standard consumer Shuttle hardware, >> > finally, to deal with standard rack server form-factor hardware built to >> > maintain operationally. >> > >> > VM's for hosting just make sense, anything dedicated will never be "cheap" >> > out of pure reality it doesn't make sense to offer 2-4 core hardware >> > systems, or maintain them as stand-alone systems. Why everyone is a >> > "cloud" suddenly years ago, GD was just late to the party. >> > >> > -mb >> > >> > >> > On 03/22/2016 11:34 AM, Sesso wrote: >> >> I asked an employee about it and he said, "our clients are too dumb to >> >> realize that that aren't getting a bare metal server." >> >> >> >> Jason >> >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > James > > Linkedin > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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