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I agree, that would be great. Let's start a company that does that.
by vessenes 15y ago
I agree, that would be great. Let's start a company that does that.
- rbranson 15y agoAt current RAM prices, one can build a cheap 2U SuperServer with 144GB of ECC DDR3 1333MHz RAM, a single quad-core 40W 2.13GHz Westmere processor, a 10gig-E card, and a 4GB CompactFlash drive for ~$4,000. Assuming the server has a 3-year lifespan and costs ~$4,000 to power, cool, house, network, and administer, that's around $0.0021/GB-hr considering 143GB of it is usable. Double that to ~$0.0043 for redundancy, and they could charge $0.02/GB-hr and make a healthy profit. Edit: Note that a lot of that profit gets eaten up in underutilized capacity, this is just a simplistic analysis.
- jann 15y agoThe problem is that you need to provide the other services as well. Having your database and application server in one datacenter, but your memcached instance in another would reduce the use-cases because of latency and bandwidth restrictions.
- wmf 15y agoWe recently got a step closer to integrating multiple clouds now that EC2 allows peering. http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/ http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/ To really make it easy you'd probably want federated auth and billing, but I'm not sure that's in Amazon's interest.