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Because Hetzner and Linode VPSs have fixed disk sizes, while Azure and AWS have basically infinite storage. You use your cheap commodity VPS as a cache, not a s

Because Hetzner and Linode VPSs have fixed disk sizes, while Azure and AWS have basically infinite storage. You use your cheap commodity VPS as a cache, not a source-of-truth.

XCSme 5y ago
You can use block storage for scalable disk size: https://www.linode.com/products/block-storage/ https://www.linode.com/products/block-storage/
- throwawaygh 5y ago
  But then you're right back to the cloud billing problem, right?
  - XCSme 5y ago
    That's right, auto-scaling comes with this problem, but at least you removed one extra service/point of failure.
    - bastawhiz 5y ago
      That's assuming you trust Linode block storage as much as you trust S3.
      - XCSme 5y ago
        Trust in what sense? Uptime, security, privacy? I am not sure whether I can say I trust one or another, by personally I had a good experience with VPS/dedicated server providers, more than with cloud (AWS/GCP).
- FpUser 5y ago
  Out of curiosity I tried to look up their pricing and the first thing I am greeted with when launching their price calculator is "you must allow functional cookies". I disabled all shields for their side and still the same thing. Waste of time
  - XCSme 5y ago
    I personally never used Linode and can not recommend nor talk against it, I was just pointing out that if you want scalable solutions AWS is not the only answer.
remram 5y ago
If your cache is much smaller than the data, it will be ineffective, unless you think everyone keeps downloading the same tiny subset of files. That last assumption works for web content (e.g. newest articles see more hits) but probably not for data.
manquer 5y ago
Many of them have managed object storage services as well. OVH[1] and Linode[2], scaleway[3] have them, that should scale for most use cases and are S3 compatible APIs Also Azure and Linode, Scaleway Backblaze and others are part of Cloudflare bandwidth alliance [4] so there shouldn't be egress fees between the two. It is really only AWS which is a problem, you don't need this setup with any other provider. [1] https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/object-storage/ https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/object-storage/ [2] https://www.linode.com/products/object-storage/ https://www.linode.com/products/object-storage/ [3] https://www.scaleway.com/en/object-storage/ https://www.scaleway.com/en/object-storage/ [4] https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/ https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/

Because Hetzner and Linode VPSs have fixed disk sizes, while Azure and AWS have basically infinite storage. You use your cheap commodity VPS as a cache, not a source-of-truth.

XCSme 5y ago

You can use block storage for scalable disk size: https://www.linode.com/products/block-storage/ https://www.linode.com/products/block-storage/

throwawaygh 5y ago
But then you're right back to the cloud billing problem, right?
- XCSme 5y ago
  That's right, auto-scaling comes with this problem, but at least you removed one extra service/point of failure.
  - bastawhiz 5y ago
    That's assuming you trust Linode block storage as much as you trust S3.
    - XCSme 5y ago
      Trust in what sense? Uptime, security, privacy? I am not sure whether I can say I trust one or another, by personally I had a good experience with VPS/dedicated server providers, more than with cloud (AWS/GCP).
FpUser 5y ago
Out of curiosity I tried to look up their pricing and the first thing I am greeted with when launching their price calculator is "you must allow functional cookies". I disabled all shields for their side and still the same thing. Waste of time
- XCSme 5y ago
  I personally never used Linode and can not recommend nor talk against it, I was just pointing out that if you want scalable solutions AWS is not the only answer.

remram 5y ago

If your cache is much smaller than the data, it will be ineffective, unless you think everyone keeps downloading the same tiny subset of files. That last assumption works for web content (e.g. newest articles see more hits) but probably not for data.

manquer 5y ago

Many of them have managed object storage services as well. OVH[1] and Linode[2], scaleway[3] have them, that should scale for most use cases and are S3 compatible APIs Also Azure and Linode, Scaleway Backblaze and others are part of Cloudflare bandwidth alliance [4] so there shouldn't be egress fees between the two. It is really only AWS which is a problem, you don't need this setup with any other provider. [1] https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/object-storage/ https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/object-storage/ [2] https://www.linode.com/products/object-storage/ https://www.linode.com/products/object-storage/ [3] https://www.scaleway.com/en/object-storage/ https://www.scaleway.com/en/object-storage/ [4] https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/ https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/