How DCs use unique technical solutions to provide cheapest dedicated servers

Basically, this method can afford the giants of the industry. And so far it is used only for individual solutions, because it is given solely for information. A regular user who is looking for a cheapest dedicated servers is unlikely to be able to find any suggestion that allows saving exactly at the expense of such solutions.

Google has become a pioneer here. Being a wholesale buyer and having the ability to make individual orders for configuration, he made some adjustments. The calculations showed that it is more economical to supply only 12 volts to the motherboard and convert them to other necessary voltages by internal means. For comparison, the standard version uses a 3.3, 5 and 12 volt supply from the power supply. In addition, the use of only one input voltage made it possible to install a small, uninterruptible power supply unit directly into the operating node. Its capacity is enough to power the node for about 3 minutes, which allows you to either shut down the node correctly or wait for the local backup generator to turn on.

Another example of such a solution was applied by the Backblaze service, which created its storage service on the basis of PC equipment. In general, this is not a method. But because of the specifics of the tasks, he has the right to life. They took a motherboard with a Core 2 processor and 4 GB of RAM, instructed additional SATA modules, branchers, and filled the space with so many ordinary hard drives with the maximum available capacity in the market that could be placed, connected and cooled.

HP specialists have developed a technical solution that allows significant savings on the construction and management of the data center without sacrificing quality and they can provide dedicated servers cheapest. Their HP POD 240a solution allows you to build a Tier 3 class data center and, according to the manufacturer, during the creation and operation of:

• reduce the cost of creation by about 4 times;

• reduce the time of creation up to 8 times;

• place approximately 10 times more equipment than a classic DC of a similar area;

• reduce cooling costs up to 25 times.

Thanks to adaptive cooling technology, PUE can be achieved in the range from 1.05 to 1.30, depending on the ambient temperature. At temperatures from 14 to 28 C free cooling is used.