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You missed my point: If they give you some more disk space then they have to decrease everyone else's space. What you're suggesting means buying a new "pie",
by Andys 17y ago
You missed my point: If they give you some more disk space then they have to decrease everyone else's space.
What you're suggesting means buying a new "pie", because they've sliced up the existing pie and allocated all of it, completely. This would mean buying more datacenter space, more servers, more networking equipment. When you want to offer disk space to customers as a product, it has to scale, you can't just plug in a USB HDD every time someone emails to ask for more space.
- kragen 17y agoI didn't miss your point. I disagreed directly with your point, because I think you're wrong — probably for Slicehost, and certainly for a sensibly-run company that does what they do. Aren't they already using a SAN? Aren't they continuously expanding their "pie" as they get more customers and replace superannuated servers? So not USB but SATA: populating the new servers with 500GB disks instead of 250GB, or three disks instead of two. Maybe you know more about how Slicehost operates than I do, and I'm wrong about the above? If so, I'd love to have details.