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I disagree. With over 300 servers in AWS, you can almost certainly build a redundant data center with hardware at less than 60% of the costing assuming 3 year
by late2part 10y ago
I disagree. With over 300 servers in AWS, you can almost certainly build a redundant data center with hardware at less than 60% of the costing assuming 3 year depreciation.
Arista and Cisco shouldn't cost top dollar; though anyone buying EMC or Netapp for any new build should have their union card revoked. FreeNAS ftw uber alles.
Source: Did it twice.
- closeparen 10y agoIs FreeNAS something people actually run Serious Business, at-scale production datacenters on? I've run it in my home a few times out of curiosity, and that was never my impression.
- late2part 10y agoYes. I know of several billion dollar companies that run it in a web facing production operations capacity.
- Spooky23 10y agoAny good talks or other resources about this sort of use case that you might recommend? We're... displeased with the current solution that we're using at work for this use case. :)
- late2part 10y agoI've created a subreddit here [0] for discussion. Ask some questions and I'll give you the information I have that's relevant. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/WebScaleFreeNAS/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WebScaleFreeNAS/