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phlux on April 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The cost of cloud hosting vs. colocation

This is something I have been wondering about; it would be good to be able to have space in a cloud DC - where you can have a rack or ten of your own equipment as well. Thus being able to leverage both.

I don't know if it is offered at all by any of the cloud vendors, but it would be good to be able to install specialty machines/disk into the facility but still leverage all other aspects of the cloud provider.

MartinCron on April 25, 2011 | [–]

You can mix "cloud" + "non-cloud" stuff at SoftLayer. That's part of my startup's growth/emergency scalability plan.

St-Clock on April 25, 2011 | | [–]

I believe github is doing exactly this "Powered by the Dedicated Servers and Cloud Computing of Rackspace Hosting®"

justincormack on April 25, 2011 | [–]

Rackspace can offer something pretty close to that as they do cloud and colo.

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