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Hmm, I don't know of anything, but it sounds like you're building a CDN?
by mattbillenstein 11y ago
Hmm, I don't know of anything, but it sounds like you're building a CDN?
- true_religion 11y agoNo its not that we're building a CDN... we actually use a separate CDN (Highwinds) but our system is build around the idea that we'd always have an easy infinitely extendable cloud store to handle the files. Our core competency is not file serving, so we'd prefer not to handle it even if its strictly cheaper to do it ourselves.
- mattbillenstein 11y agoSo, the 150TB is what feeds the CDN? How big is the data you're serving? There is some gaming you could do here stitching together instances on other clouds possibly (digital ocean gives you 1TB transfer on a $5/month instance), but it's less than ideal and you're effectively going to be building a file hosting platform. A quarter rack somewhere with a few servers might be the cheapest route, but now you have hardware to deal with. I've been doing some consulting the last few months while I'm between jobs - if you're interested in having some help with this, it's an interesting problem to me.