[mystraline]

Sorry, no.

MS is the same network were even their lead engineers answer "well, uhh create a new account and hope you're not banned", when it comes to fixing a illegitimate ban issue.

None of the biggies are good. None of them.

You're better off building your own data enter. Can't believe I'm saying that, but I am. And it doesnt have to be acres and MW and water cooled. It can be a 42U rack.

Hell, I'm a homeowner and have 27U rack with 10U full, battery backup, solar, fiber and a backup internet connection, and stuff.

A small business could easy do this and own the hardware and software to their enterprise. In fact, they probably should. Helps prevent rug pulls!

[3eb7988a1663]

Now I am curious what is the realistic price a business would expect to put down for a full rack. Say UPS, switch, 4-8U storage, and the rest CPU compute. Without entertaining GPUs, I bet you can get very respectably speced 1-2U servers for $5k a pop. So few hundred thousand probably gets you just an unbelievable amount of horsepower.

[mystraline]

You can get a petabyte for like $14k now. Make a massive SAN. Even 10G networking is reasonable.

Compute? You can run stuff like Proxmox in commercial mode and get tons of features for really reasonable price.

Ram is now the big nasty, but I'm thinking with the 500 billion USD dropped on this circlejerk economy, ram will come back down.

You can also get a few graphics cards for AI stuff, but I'd constrain it to actual dedicated reasons, rather than some "AI everywhere".

Backups can be tricky. Run tape, but also run encrypted S3 backups remote, for 'holyshiteverythingsgone' reasons.

I used to be syseng for a small dev company. They had 3 racks by a local MSP, and was grossly mismanaged. Could have did everything in 1.5 racks. I have pictures, and you'd be aghast.

[mystraline]

@dang why was my response autokilled?

[pousada]

Having run a small business on one of the big clouds for almost 10 years now building your own data center is insane advice.

>easy

Hell no