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>But everyone seemed to be flocking to them. To the point we have young Devs today that dont know what VPS and Colo ( Colocation) meant. Back to the article,
by ksec 2y ago
>But everyone seemed to be flocking to them.
To the point we have young Devs today that dont know what VPS and Colo ( Colocation) meant.
Back to the article, I am surprised it was only a "A few years ago" Fastmail adopted SSD. Which certainly seems late in the cycle for the benefits of what SSD offers.
Price for Colo on the order of $3000/2U/year. That is $125 /U/month.
- flemhans 2y agoHDDs are still the best option for many workloads, including email.
- matt-p 2y agoColo is typically sold on power not space, from your example you're either getting ripped off if it's for low power servers or massively undercharged for a 4xa100 machine
- justsomehnguy 2y ago> Which certainly seems late in the cycle for the benefits of what SSD offers. 90% of emails are never read, 9% are read once. What SSD could offer for this use case except at least 2x cost ?
- bluGill 2y agoDon't forget that fastmail is through an internet transport with enough latency to make hdd seek times noise
- brongondwana 2y agoWe adopted SSD for the current week's email and rust for the deeper storage many years ago. A few years ago we switched to everything on NVMe, so there's no longer two tiers of storage. That's when the pricing switched to make it worthwhile.
- kapone 2y agoWhat?? I can get an entire rack at Equinix for ~1200/mo with an unlimited 10g internet connect.