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Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake

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Hopefully it will be the the first to offer the much cheaper AMD Ryzen/Naples, too.

Any idea on Naples timeframe for retail? I'm hoping to build a small workstation in a few months and 32 cores sounds like it might let me browse hacker news faster.

Q2, or Q3 at the latest I think.

Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake

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Hahaha. Meanwhile I've been running 2 machines with Skylake and a combined 24 cores/48 threads, 256GB DDR4, 6x512G SSDs, unmetered 1Gbit/s public and 2,5Gbit/s internal for over half a year for a combined $150 total, in complete privacy and in full control of my hosts.. go dedicated, people.

As another has said, who is your vendor? I'm sure they would like some more customers :)

online.net. They run promotions all the time from which I got my machines from, but they're insanely cheap as is. Uptime has been 100% for the past few months.

Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake

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Almost none. Put CoreOS on both, pull yourself a HA database and install Rancher which creates a ipsec network overlay (both hosts), set up your containers on both hosts, set up HAProxy on both hosts (configuration is done only once), then set up an external DNS service from the library that updates your DNS when a host goes down. I even run a small DNS server in 2 containers on both hosts so I don't need the externa…

Using DNS for HA is a lose-lose scenario. I'll take a proper load balancer backed with a cloud provider's superior network any day.

Not if you use a low TTL. And no, I'd rather not have my traffic run or even terminate through every intelligence agency on the planet, even if that means accepting a few drops in the timeframe it takes to propagate.

Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake

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post #90

Hahaha. Meanwhile I've been running 2 machines with Skylake and a combined 24 cores/48 threads, 256GB DDR4, 6x512G SSDs, unmetered 1Gbit/s public and 2,5Gbit/s internal for over half a year for a combined $150 total, in complete privacy and in full control of my hosts.. go dedicated, people.

That's pretty impressive hardware for under $150

Per month, just to clarify.

Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake

#195
post #90

Hahaha. Meanwhile I've been running 2 machines with Skylake and a combined 24 cores/48 threads, 256GB DDR4, 6x512G SSDs, unmetered 1Gbit/s public and 2,5Gbit/s internal for over half a year for a combined $150 total, in complete privacy and in full control of my hosts.. go dedicated, people.

That's pretty impressive hardware for under $150

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Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake

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post #90

Hahaha. Meanwhile I've been running 2 machines with Skylake and a combined 24 cores/48 threads, 256GB DDR4, 6x512G SSDs, unmetered 1Gbit/s public and 2,5Gbit/s internal for over half a year for a combined $150 total, in complete privacy and in full control of my hosts.. go dedicated, people.

renting used servers? any pointers would be helpful - $150/yr sounds cool How much technical (DevOps-y) do you have to be keep it secure & available?

Just to clarify, 150/month.

Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake

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As another has said, who is your vendor? I'm sure they would like some more customers :)

I'm guessing, perhaps unsurprisingly, that we won't find out.

I'm guessing, not surprisingly, that you felt really good typing this comment.

Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake

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Hahaha. Meanwhile I've been running 2 machines with Skylake and a combined 24 cores/48 threads, 256GB DDR4, 6x512G SSDs, unmetered 1Gbit/s public and 2,5Gbit/s internal for over half a year for a combined $150 total, in complete privacy and in full control of my hosts.. go dedicated, people.

Who's your vendor? I'd like to get the same deal you're getting.

online.net. I got my machines off a promotion so you can't get the same setup probably, but they're very cheap anyhow and run other promotions all the time.

Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake

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Holy cow, 28 000 servers, can you give us a clue to what you need so many servers for?

We're processing videos, a lot of them. Roughly 34PB worth of data every month. Additionally we're running our search engine at top of it with couple of other services. You can check what we're up to here https://pex.com

That landing page is a whopping 9MB [1]. Please optimize it for users with slow internet like me. [1] https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170225_RN_1K80/
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