nemilar

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   by nemilar 14y ago

   Not to spam, but hopefully this information is useful for some HN'ers. Our startup, http://velobit.com , provides caching as well. Alas, it is not open source, but it does have some differentiators over bcache/dm-cache. The primary pro's
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   by nemilar 14y ago

   I realize that the post is making an analogy, but it's based on fact. I worked in a car shop for a few months, and we charged a premium for "exotic" cars - something like 2x the cost of normal service. The reason was entirely on the insur
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   by nemilar 14y ago

   This may be a silly question, but I don't understand why the bandwidth is so low. I understand the latency will be high, since you're limited by the speed of light; but wouldn't you be able to get more bandwidth just by increasing the spec
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   by nemilar 14y ago

   This may actually be much easier in a rural area, as opposed to urban/suburban. Rural landowners have large tracts of land, and the land is in fewer hands. You need less individuals to buy-in, since a single buy-in on the project can mean
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   Show HN: Our startup uses SSD as a cache, so it's easy to speed up IO bound apps(velobit.com)

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