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> When you build your own system, you decide how reliable you want it. Ha! You mean that you discover how hard and expensive it is to build your own reliable i
by herge 14y ago
> When you build your own system, you decide how reliable you want it.
Ha! You mean that you discover how hard and expensive it is to build your own reliable infrastructure or how hard it is to hire people to do it for you.
- toomuchtodo 14y agoNo offense, but I used to work at a DoE lab on data-taking from the Large Hadron Collider CMS detector. It's not as expensive as you'd think. We were dealing with hundreds of petabytes of data, and customers much more demanding than your consumer paying $16/month to stream movies.
- herge 14y agoHow big was your team? How much were your IT costs?
- toomuchtodo 14y ago10 people; 4 people on the actual sysadmin/operations side, 6 people who managed the higher application layer for the distributed filesystem, job management, etc. If you're just talking the spinning disk and servers, probably ~$5-6MM/year. If you include the StorageTek tape archives, add in another $5MM-10MM. Netflix operating income for FY2011 was $376 million.