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A good case study is Dropbox. They didn't build any of their own infrastructure until they became big enough (2 years ago).
by mankash666 9y ago
A good case study is Dropbox. They didn't build any of their own infrastructure until they became big enough (2 years ago).
- Dobbs 9y agoDropbox built their own infrastructure over five years ago. They just took several years to turn the infra from idle to being used.
- Mahh 9y agoThe fact here isn't quite right. (I'm an employee at Dropbox) Primarily, until 2 years ago we did lean on S3 for all block storage, but most of the rest of the infrastructure (metadata storage, etc) ran in our own datacenters. Your point I think you're getting at sounds like something I'd agree with though -- you can wait a bit the cost efficiency starts to be what is important/impactful to work on before shifting your usage away from some of these providers.
- late2part 9y agoI heard a story once that Dropbox started to move their data out of S3 and AWS rate limited them so they couldn't. I don't know if it's true or not but I heard the story.
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