Curious to know how to which degree they are self hosting, seems they'll buy their own servers but I doubt they'll go all the way to buying land and building their own data centers?
When I was there, they rented space in a DC outside Chicago (near the airport), and later near NY for a backup location. The DC in Chicago was fantastic. We had a whole load of racks (about a row in the DC), and we bought our own servers. Running our own DC would have crossed the line, it's a whole huge thing you need to do and it only makes sense at scale if you want to do it well, Basecamp used a tiny fraction of the DC capacity.
A whole load of Racks for running Basecamp? We are talking about 42U per Rack, and total of 420U of Servers?
The scale seems quite massive. At least to the idea / perception of what I had about Basecamp. Would be nice to see those specification and see how much of an improvement it is 10 years later and if we could fit those into 2-3 Racks.
Who told you they need to build a massive data center? They are NOT RENTING SERVERS but buying space for the ones they use.
With the budget they can afford to buy super beefy rack servers that occupy no space. With a single rack they can have a ton of late tech servers.
wlll|3 years ago
ksec|3 years ago
A whole load of Racks for running Basecamp? We are talking about 42U per Rack, and total of 420U of Servers?
The scale seems quite massive. At least to the idea / perception of what I had about Basecamp. Would be nice to see those specification and see how much of an improvement it is 10 years later and if we could fit those into 2-3 Racks.
Nextgrid|3 years ago
Abe9000|3 years ago