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It's impractical due to the size of the data. You're talking hundreds of millions, or billions of certificates.
by RL_Quine 5y ago
It's impractical due to the size of the data. You're talking hundreds of millions, or billions of certificates.
- hannob 5y agoBit more than 6 billion. And yes, it's quite challenging. It would be a nice service to the community if someone would host downloadable dumps of CT logs.
- bushbaba 5y ago100 billion * 2048 bytes per cert is just 205 terabytes. That’s not that impractical. Could easily be stored on gcs and s3 with requestor pays for the api and any associated egress charges. 205 terabytes at 2 cent per GB/month is just 50k/year.
- exikyut 5y agoAnd FTP is a perfectly viable and straightforward alternative to Dropbox. You just need to...
- metadat 5y agoOr purchase 50x4TB drives for $10k USD, or 100 if you want RAID-1. These can easily fit into 4-8U of rack space, at around $1,500 or less per rack U (don't buy new / expensive servers if all you need is high-IO NAS storage hosts for cephFS). This will have minimal recurring fees. But will cost you time to manage instead of paying $CLOUDVENDER $50k/year. Please evaluate the tradeoffs for your scenario but good God don't blindly default to the cloud without first thinking carefully about it. See also related: Today's HN top article is "Just say Yes to self-hosting" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30781536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30781536
- toomuchtodo 5y agoIt's $12,300/year at Backblaze. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html