It wasn't long ago that tech companies, small and large, had to have a proper technical operations organization able to build out infrastructures.
The process went a little bit like this:
- Fly to the location you want to set up your infrastructure in to take a tour of different data centers and their facilities. Look at the floor considerations, power considerations, heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC), fire prevention systems, physical security, and so on.
- Shop for an internet provider; ultimately, you are talking about servers and a lot more bandwidth, but the process is the same: you want to get internet connectivity for your servers.
- Once this is done, it's time to buy ...