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I‘m trying to re-/sell cheap bulk object storage, by renting cheap dedicated servers (e.g. Hetzner), connect them using 10GbE and putting them into a big Ceph c
by red0point 5y ago
I‘m trying to re-/sell cheap bulk object storage, by renting cheap dedicated servers (e.g. Hetzner), connect them using 10GbE and putting them into a big Ceph cluster.
My problem is how to bill people for consuming object storage properly. Do you do it retrospectively and take the fraud risk? Are there any pre-existing platforms that do Ceph billing?
- bob1029 5y agoCan you explain how the economics of what you are doing would be competitive with something like S3 or B2? I feel like there could be a market/margin here but there are a lot of numbers involved to figure out the specifics.
- red0point 5y agoJust take a look at the egress pricing of B2 (10USD/TB) S3 (92 USD/TB) and then look at Hetzner's 1 EUR / TB. There is quite a margin there - same thing with the storage costs (23,5,1.5).
- sosodev 5y agoThis is what DigitalOcean did to create their block/object storage. If you're interested in doing this type of thing in a career capacity the storage team is hiring a lot of people right now. Feel free to reach out to me as I'm on that team. :) https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/why-we-chose-ceph-to-build-block-storage https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/why-we-chose-ceph-to-build...
- oebboe 5y agoI'm currently thinking about starting a very similar project, would you like to talk about it and exchange some learnings?