So your whole team spent 4 full time months to get 12 servers deployed? That organization sounds rather degenerate.
We colocate at a datacenter and can get cabinets pretty easily. We've done this for over 10 years now. When we aren't growing or shrinking I spend about an extra 4 hours per month because we have physical servers rather than use something like AWS.
12 servers would probably take us about an extra 6 of our person-hours to get up and running vs AWS. If we needed a new cabinet it might take a couple days, but we aren't actively working - we put in a request, and they tell us when its ready for our use. We don't sit and twiddle our thumbs while this happens, and we do it before the development side of the project is completed.
We've talked about AWS before for the redundancy and convenience but the price and the extra headache of dealing with the inconsistent performance never made sense for our use.
We colocate at a datacenter and can get cabinets pretty easily. We've done this for over 10 years now. When we aren't growing or shrinking I spend about an extra 4 hours per month because we have physical servers rather than use something like AWS.
12 servers would probably take us about an extra 6 of our person-hours to get up and running vs AWS. If we needed a new cabinet it might take a couple days, but we aren't actively working - we put in a request, and they tell us when its ready for our use. We don't sit and twiddle our thumbs while this happens, and we do it before the development side of the project is completed.
We've talked about AWS before for the redundancy and convenience but the price and the extra headache of dealing with the inconsistent performance never made sense for our use.