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Depending on the requirements https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax101/ May be an actually better fit Once they available again
Why a Ryzen instead of an Epyc in a data center?
afaik their most popular product is the EX4x line with a i7-6700.
It is a cool project. S3 can be cost efficient, but only if you don't touch data :) Their price calculation doesn't mention cost of S3 requests, which very quickly adds up and is often neglected. It costs $1 for 2.5M GET requests to S3. They have 180 shards, in a general case query seems to fetch all of them. Presumably they don't download full shard per request, but download an index + some relevant ranges. Lets say…
4x i3en.2xlarge (64GB / 5TB NVMe) at $449 / month (1yr reserved) is $1796, or $2636 without reservation, but much better performance due to the NVMe drives.
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Depending on the requirements https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax101/ May be an actually better fit Once they available again
Holy smokes. 8TB SSD + 128GB RAM + Ryzen 9 for 100 euro a month. Can you get anywhere close to this with AWS or even DO?
Similar with DO, the closest equivalent is a 3.52GB SSD, 128GB RAM, 16 vCPU droplet for $1240/month.
If you need raw power instead of integration into an extensive service ecosystem, dedicated servers are hard to beat (short of colocating your own hardware, which comes with more headache). And Hetzner is among the best in terms of value/money.
If you're going for low cost, you could do better: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/dell/dx181/conf... Basic configuration in Finland 1 224,91 € 1.92 TB SATA SSD Datacenter Edition 4 95,20 € 320,11 € 320 Euro equals 385.90 United States Dollar
This is a complex misunderstanding... First, we are getting better throughput from S3 than I we were using a SATA SSD. (and slower than a NVMe SSD). This is a bit of a secret. Of course, single sequential throughput on S3 sucks. At the end of the day the data is stored on spining disk and we cannot do anything against the law physics. ... but we can concurrently read many disks using s3. Network is our only bottlenec…
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Holy smokes. 8TB SSD + 128GB RAM + Ryzen 9 for 100 euro a month. Can you get anywhere close to this with AWS or even DO?
Of course not. But that's why the "cloud" (as in the typical DO/AWS/Azure/GCP offerings) are a scam.
Ordering a server at Hetzner can take anywhere between a few minutes and a few days. Each server has a fixed setup cost of around the monthly rent. They only have two datacenters in Europe. They don't have any auxillary services (databases, queues, scalable object storage, etc.). They are unbeatable for certain use-cases, but the cloud is still valuable for lots of other scenarios.
If you're going for low cost, you could do better: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/dell/dx181/conf... Basic configuration in Finland 1 224,91 € 1.92 TB SATA SSD Datacenter Edition 4 95,20 € 320,11 € 320 Euro equals 385.90 United States Dollar
Depending on the requirements https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax101/ May be an actually better fit Once they available again
Is it a web search engine or an adjective search engine? I'd love to see someone make a deep search engine that goes beyond the 100...1000 limit.
The tech below is an inverted index.
What an amazing project, good luck to you guys and thanks for sharing.
If you're going for low cost, you could do better: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/dell/dx181/conf... Basic configuration in Finland 1 224,91 € 1.92 TB SATA SSD Datacenter Edition 4 95,20 € 320,11 € 320 Euro equals 385.90 United States Dollar
I am really starting to feel that co-location will make a big comeback. It seems cloud costs are just becoming too high for the convenience they once offered. For small projects and scale probably makes a ton of sense, but at some point the costs to scale aren't worth the up front developer cost savings.
Shared nothing is the best architecture for e-commerce search for instance.
But if you have one query every minutes or so for a 1TB dataset, it feels a bit silly to have a couple of servers dedicated to it doesn't it? Imagine this is the case for all big data search you can think of... Logs, emails, etc. This is a waste of CPU and RAM.