IDC business & buying guides
How to choose and run IDC management, billing, server rental and colocation.
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How automated server provisioning works: from paid order to delivered server
Automated server provisioning is an order state machine: a payment reserves a free server, then IP assignment, switch port setup, a PXE reinstall over IPMI and credential delivery run in a fixed order. Each step must detect failure and release what it took, or servers stay half-provisioned.
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Colocation vs cloud: costs, break-even point and how to choose
Colocation vs cloud comes down to what you are buying: colocation gives you rack space, power, bandwidth and whole servers on a monthly or annual contract; cloud gives you virtualized compute billed by the hour. Steady, bandwidth-heavy workloads are cheaper in colocation, spiky ones in the cloud.
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How to choose an IDC billing system: 8 key points on billing, provisioning and reselling
An IDC billing system is a provider's till and ledger: pricing, provisioning, renewal reminders and agent payouts all happen here. Choose the wrong one and every month's reconciliation becomes painful.
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What does an IDC management system do? 10 questions to ask before you buy
"IDC management system" covers a lot of ground: to some it means data center asset management, to others a sales and billing platform. This guide splits it into its two parts, then lists the questions worth asking one by one.
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Server rental management systems: a guide to automating dedicated servers
Renting out dedicated servers sounds simple: the customer pays and you hand over a machine. But from order to delivery and from renewal to reclaim, there are more than a dozen steps. This guide walks through them and shows which system handles each one and what can be automated.
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