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At $2300/month you could redundantly colo or lease VERY powerful servers in 3-4 data centers around the country.
by shiftpgdn 14y ago
At $2300/month you could redundantly colo or lease VERY powerful servers in 3-4 data centers around the country.
- bgentry 14y agowould those be managed at that price? because it's a hell of a lot more expensive when you factor in the cost of devops to make sure it stays working and fails over properly.
- dialtone 14y agoExcept when you have to factor in all the plane flights to replace broken HDD. And the risk of not making it in time for when it breaks.
- shiftpgdn 14y agoMost colo facilities let you buy hands on time through their techs or include a small amount per month for things like hard drive/ram swaps.
- rdl 14y agoYeah, I don't think I'd go with less than RAID-6 (or full system redundancy plus 1 drive redundancy in each). Rebuilds just take too long, even with an in-chassis spare on RAID5. Unfortunately Areca is really the only controller I've found which is well supported and does RAID6 fast.
- keithnoizu 14y agoPoor inherited architecture, working to scale out greatnonprofits.org horizontally but it will be a while before we get there. I have nothing against colo but I don't really have time to run around the country checking on servers.