Honestly I feel that far too many companies are afraid of building their own servers. In addition to getting exactly what you need for each workload, it can save the company a boatload of money over time. System integrators like Dell charge companies millions of dollars to assemble servers that are no better than anything I could build myself.
Another overlooked benefit of building your own hardware is you don’t need to add complex overhead like virtualization or containers. You can “right size” each server with the perfect amount of CPU, IO and RAM for the processes you will run on it. Paired with a kernel compiled specifically for that server, your businesses applications will be vastly more performant than ones running on a cloud platform.
Honestly, too many businesses hop on the latest fads. The smart ones see the value in going back to the basics.
Another overlooked benefit of building your own hardware is you don’t need to add complex overhead like virtualization or containers. You can “right size” each server with the perfect amount of CPU, IO and RAM for the processes you will run on it. Paired with a kernel compiled specifically for that server, your businesses applications will be vastly more performant than ones running on a cloud platform.
Honestly, too many businesses hop on the latest fads. The smart ones see the value in going back to the basics.