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I think it'll be interesting to see. It seems like they won't move their 8PB of data off the cloud. This seems smart because you can always spin up servers whe
by senttoschool 4y ago
I think it'll be interesting to see.
It seems like they won't move their 8PB of data off the cloud. This seems smart because you can always spin up servers when one goes down, but if your storage system loses important user emails, that's the end of your service.
- gabrielgio 4y ago> It seems like they won't move their 8PB of data off the cloud. For now. He wrote they will do that next year.
- senttoschool 4y agoGood luck to them. I'm sure they can do it but I wouldn't want to be working on that project.
- bluedino 4y agoWhat do you use when you decide to host 8PB of data yourself? 60x18TB - 1PB raw $10,000 for a 60 drive chassis $250/drive = $15,0000 $25,000 total You're going to need 12-15 of those, right? $300-400,000 Now what do you run on top of that, CEPH? NFS shares? Present it as iSCSI?
- wmf 4y agoCeph, Minio, or some other S3-compatible system.
- hintymad 4y agoMinio is dual licensed: AGPS or their enterprise license. Both can be a big no-no for companies. I was wondering what could be the alternative to MinIO, in addition to Ceph.
- wmf 4y agoIMO "never pay for software no matter what" is a red flag to me. Buying a license can be the right choice if it saves you money on ops or hardware.
- hintymad 4y agoI see two issues with licensed systems for large enough workload. One is scale of cost. Enterprise software charges by some normalized server configuration (CPU, memory, and etc. MinIO seems an exception, though). As a result, the cost of the license can grow to be prohibitive for large workload. Another is that enterprise licenses usually do not allow users to modify the software easily, while for any significant workload, we almost always need to add code for smooth operations.