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About drip-egg-jack

Do cloud storage

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    Comment #28798039

    I'm curious, how they actually be able to reduce the transfer costs from AWS? Do they know some smart way to avoid paying to Amazon for the transfer and still be able to get the da…

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    Comment #28692205

    R2 is still under development, we will see how it will work, but I can tell you how Tebi.io global replication works: - Writes and reads always goes to the closest region, this kee…

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    Comment #28691772

    Check tebi.io - it is a geo-distributed S3-compatible storage that does exactly that. You can configure global consistency level for each bucket individually.

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    Comment #28688138

    > Our vision for R2 includes multi-region storage that automatically replicates objects to the locations they’re frequently requested from. Seems like they are going to automatical…

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    Comment #28688088

    This is true - most of the object storage providers are really bad at serving data fast, they more focused on a cold storage. Tebi.io works really fast for small files, plus it is …

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    Comment #28687950

    You need to account IO load as well, more bandwidth means more requests to the disks and I assume they will use mechanical HDDs for the storage, SSDs are still too expensive to sup…

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    Comment #28687909

    I suggest to use constant quality encoding instead of a constant bitrate, this way encoder will automatically adapt bitrate for a particular scene. This is a much better approach, …

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    Comment #28687841

    Actually many companies are trying/tried to compete with AWS especially in an egress price territory but because of a lack of exposure it is very hard to get a traction and get big…

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    Comment #28571373

    Like: They are pushing the web and technology in general by inventing a ton of different services. This is really nice. Dislike: Traffic price is just crazy high, it is simply impo…

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    Comment #26615881

    https://tebi.io/ charge for the storage, you can define how many copies and where you want to store your data and a flat egress fee

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    Comment #26615856

    https://tebi.io/ has a solution - you always upload to the closest server in your region that is much faster then upload to a central location.