If you know what you're doing, yeah. Running a fileserver should be pretty damn simple for anyone who stylized themselves a "hacker", but you're talking like m

If you know what you're doing, yeah. Running a fileserver should be pretty damn simple for anyone who stylized themselves a "hacker", but you're talking like maintaining file servers is some sort of black magic for which the simple solution is to give up and turn to an outsourced solution where you have little control and no visibility. Its not. The hard part of storage is to understand the capabilities and limitations of your storage and more importantly how those fit in with your computational needs. You have to do that at amazon on in house. A3 just makes it easy to ignore evaluating their service because you're never actually forced to. Maintaining servers is butter.