I saw D9 last night and had a very difficult time enjoying it. That was mostly due to being motion sick from the camera work. That is a first for me. If you get even the slightest bit of motion sickness, wait until this one is out on DVD, or sit as far back as you possibly can in the theatre.
Note to directors: Using shaky cam throughout an entire feature length film doesn't make your film look gritty and documentary like. It makes you look like an amateur.
I think there is a third option that you should consider. Use a co-lo facility. Instead of trying to build your own data center (which is outrageously expensive,) or have someone else manage everything (which is unreliable,) put the servers in an existing data center and manage them in house. I am part of a hosting initiative at my company (we host environments for some of our customers,) and we've either priced out or tried the first two options. We are in the process of spending millions to move from a managed hosting center to a co-lo facility. We have found a 3rd party organization that can handle the hardware portion (if a drive fails they change it out at the data center, they change tapes out during backups etc.) We decided how much of the system they manage, and we take care of the rest. That way I don't spend my time dealing with updating windows and creating users. I spend it managing the databases and applications which I specialize in.
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I saw D9 last night and had a very difficult time enjoying it. That was mostly due to being motion sick from the camera work. That is a first for me. If you get even the slightest bit of motion sickness, wait until this one is out on DVD, or sit as far back as you possibly can in the theatre.
Note to directors: Using shaky cam throughout an entire feature length film doesn't make your film look gritty and documentary like. It makes you look like an amateur.
I think there is a third option that you should consider. Use a co-lo facility. Instead of trying to build your own data center (which is outrageously expensive,) or have someone else manage everything (which is unreliable,) put the servers in an existing data center and manage them in house. I am part of a hosting initiative at my company (we host environments for some of our customers,) and we've either priced out or tried the first two options. We are in the process of spending millions to move from a managed hosting center to a co-lo facility. We have found a 3rd party organization that can handle the hardware portion (if a drive fails they change it out at the data center, they change tapes out during backups etc.) We decided how much of the system they manage, and we take care of the rest. That way I don't spend my time dealing with updating windows and creating users. I spend it managing the databases and applications which I specialize in.