It wasn't long ago that tech companies, small and large, had to have a proper technical operations team, able to build infrastructures. The process went a little bit like this:
- Fly to the location where you want to set up your infrastructure. Here, take a tour of different datacenters and their facilities. Observe the floor considerations, power considerations, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), fire prevention systems, physical security, and so on.
- Shop for an internet service provider. Ultimately, you are considering servers and a lot more bandwidth, but the process is the sameâyou want to acquire internet connectivity for your servers.
- Once this is done, it's time to buy ...
