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Great post, and interesting setup - harkens to days of old, when this was simply how things were done in the first place - but one question that I have, apropos

by aa-jv 8mo ago

Great post, and interesting setup - harkens to days of old, when this was simply how things were done in the first place - but one question that I have, apropos: >.. serve more than 10k - 100k requests/second which is good enough to serve a million customers. What is your network connectivity like for this setup? Presumably you operate in a building capable of giving you fiber, with a fixed IP, or something like that?

swiftcoder 8mo ago
> Presumably you operate in a building capable of giving you fiber, with a fixed IP, or something like that? That is not really a rarity these days. I have symmetrical gigabit fibre with a fixed IP here in a Spanish farmhouse 45 minutes from the nearest population centre
- zelphirkalt 8mo ago
  In some countries and with some ISPs, you cannot get a fixed IP address at all, unless you register a business and prove to the ISP that you are running a business. I am guessing they will bill you accordingly then, and still have the same shoddy connectivity. I have seen shoddy connectivity with Pyür in Germany for a whole office building. Even as a business you are not immune to bad ISPs.
  - swiftcoder 8mo ago
    I guess Spain benefits from having a former national telecom. Movistar charges me a (outrageous by local standards) €30/month for a static IP on my residential fibre
- hvb2 8mo ago
  Most of those business connections come with actual SLAs though that you don't have.
  - swiftcoder 8mo ago
    No SLA in the world is going to help in a rural area, when a winter storm brings a tree down on the fibre :D But they offer the exact same specs to business customers in the nearby town. I appreciate Spain is well ahead of most other countries on connectivity, but I can't picture gigabit + static IP being a dealbreaker in most of Western Europe
znnajdla 8mo ago
Gigabit fiber with static IP for about 40 EUR per month. I plan to make it redundant with a second gigabit fiber connection from a different provider but haven’t done that yet.

by aa-jv 8mo ago

swiftcoder 8mo ago

> Presumably you operate in a building capable of giving you fiber, with a fixed IP, or something like that? That is not really a rarity these days. I have symmetrical gigabit fibre with a fixed IP here in a Spanish farmhouse 45 minutes from the nearest population centre

zelphirkalt 8mo ago
In some countries and with some ISPs, you cannot get a fixed IP address at all, unless you register a business and prove to the ISP that you are running a business. I am guessing they will bill you accordingly then, and still have the same shoddy connectivity. I have seen shoddy connectivity with Pyür in Germany for a whole office building. Even as a business you are not immune to bad ISPs.
- swiftcoder 8mo ago
  I guess Spain benefits from having a former national telecom. Movistar charges me a (outrageous by local standards) €30/month for a static IP on my residential fibre
hvb2 8mo ago
Most of those business connections come with actual SLAs though that you don't have.
- swiftcoder 8mo ago
  No SLA in the world is going to help in a rural area, when a winter storm brings a tree down on the fibre :D But they offer the exact same specs to business customers in the nearby town. I appreciate Spain is well ahead of most other countries on connectivity, but I can't picture gigabit + static IP being a dealbreaker in most of Western Europe

znnajdla 8mo ago

Gigabit fiber with static IP for about 40 EUR per month. I plan to make it redundant with a second gigabit fiber connection from a different provider but haven’t done that yet.