Building A 144 TB Server For Colocation

Server ColocationI was renting a 72TB dedicated server for $799/month since December 2012. By 2016, that server was running out of space.

Faced with either ordering a second server for the same price or building and colocating my own server, I did the math and decided to build my own $6,700 144TB server and ended up saving thousands.

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Switching From Dedicated Server Hosting To Colocation For Massive Savings

Server ColocationSince December 2012 I have been leasing a large dedicated server for one of my websites. This server has 72TB of raw disk storage with a monthly fee of $799. The site gets 25 gigabytes of new content uploaded daily and by the beginning of 2016, the available disk space was down to less than 10TB.

Faced with running out of space by the end of the year, I started looking for a new solution. One of the first ideas was renting a second 72TB server from the same company, which would have doubled my server hosting cost to $1600 a month.

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