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They didn’t mention a fleet size but 2GB/s is a single commodity server. You don’t even need a single employee to manage a single server…
Which "commodity server" could serve 2GB/s(16gbps) to public internet?
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Anything over 100ms [1] is perceived as not-instant by a user. If you wait 2RTTs with 50ms per round trip, then you've already exceeded this threshold. [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/536300/what-is-the-short...
To clarify, i don't disagree. I just think if your site takes 700ms, is there really a difference between that and 650ms?
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> We consume 2GB/S, maxed out, which ends up being 5184TB a month. We have millions on users a day, all on a streaming video platform. > It cost less than $2K/Month. The solution in this article is serving on the order of 100TB/month for $400/month including a high speed global CDN, their API and database servers being hosted reliably, and redundancy and backup being handled by someone else. Your solution is hosting…
A python that knows python and linux is enough to support the up time needs and evolutions of this particular product. Actually a part time one. The entire team is composed of half of one dev. I'm 100% sure it's way cheaper than anybody that has AWS on resume. Of course, some things have to give, like the global CND, and some data guarantees. Everything is a compromise. It's all depend of what is important for your p…
Who is on-call 24/7/365, never takes vacation ever, and is always available to fix the website?
It’s weird how much HN hates jobs with on-call requirements, but every time cloud services come up the solutions always involve forcing someone to be permanently on call to save a few hundred dollars per month in hosting costs.
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> I think to manage private servers of that size you would need at least two extra experts totalling at least $20k/month. What? You set up the deployment once, and then you only need to touch it when things go horribly wrong, which is every couple of months, or to make minor quick tweaks and run some updates. Let's be generous, and say you need 10 h/month, which is about 1/16 of a person-month. And if things go horri…
> What? You set up the deployment once, and then you only need to touch it when things go horribly wrong, which is every couple of months Right, which is exactly why people pay extra for cloud managed services. If things are going “horribly wrong” every couple of months then you must necessarily be on call 24/7 and never take vacation or time away. In practice, you need at least two people to manage on-call coverage…
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> I think to manage private servers of that size you would need at least two extra experts totalling at least $20k/month. What? You set up the deployment once, and then you only need to touch it when things go horribly wrong, which is every couple of months, or to make minor quick tweaks and run some updates. Let's be generous, and say you need 10 h/month, which is about 1/16 of a person-month. And if things go horri…
> What? You set up the deployment once, and then you only need to touch it when things go horribly wrong, which is every couple of months Right, which is exactly why people pay extra for cloud managed services. If things are going “horribly wrong” every couple of months then you must necessarily be on call 24/7 and never take vacation or time away. In practice, you need at least two people to manage on-call coverage…
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> I think to manage private servers of that size you would need at least two extra experts totalling at least $20k/month. What? You set up the deployment once, and then you only need to touch it when things go horribly wrong, which is every couple of months, or to make minor quick tweaks and run some updates. Let's be generous, and say you need 10 h/month, which is about 1/16 of a person-month. And if things go horri…
> What? You set up the deployment once, and then you only need to touch it when things go horribly wrong, which is every couple of months Right, which is exactly why people pay extra for cloud managed services. If things are going “horribly wrong” every couple of months then you must necessarily be on call 24/7 and never take vacation or time away. In practice, you need at least two people to manage on-call coverage…
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A python that knows python and linux is enough to support the up time needs and evolutions of this particular product. Actually a part time one. The entire team is composed of half of one dev. I'm 100% sure it's way cheaper than anybody that has AWS on resume. Of course, some things have to give, like the global CND, and some data guarantees. Everything is a compromise. It's all depend of what is important for your p…
> The entire team is composed of half of one dev. Who is on-call 24/7/365, never takes vacation ever, and is always available to fix the website? It’s weird how much HN hates jobs with on-call requirements, but every time cloud services come up the solutions always involve forcing someone to be permanently on call to save a few hundred dollars per month in hosting costs.
If the system has a problem during the night, the users will wait until the morning.
The world doesn't stop because a streaming service is down for a few hours. It's not a medical service, or something thousands of businesses rely on.
It just looses a bit of money and users are grumpy for a day because they had to wait until they could access new content.
It's ok.
As someone building on a mostly free service with lots of content this is very helpful, thank you! Will probably migrate from S3 to Blackblaze, seems like a great deal.
- Storj has the lowest cost per TB, but charges for egress - Wasabi doesn't charge for egress, but has a fair use policy where if you egress more than you store they can kick you off their platform[2] - Wasabi is also a better fit only if you plan to keep your files around for 90+ days (they have a minimum object retention period) - The bandwidth alliance is only available for HTML related content unless you're on a specific paid plan[3]
[0] https://www.storj.io/ [1] https://wasabi.com/ [2] https://wasabi.com/paygo-pricing-faq/#free-egress-policy [3] https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/#28-limitation-on-serving-n...
*opinion is mine, not my employer's
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A python that knows python and linux is enough to support the up time needs and evolutions of this particular product. Actually a part time one. The entire team is composed of half of one dev. I'm 100% sure it's way cheaper than anybody that has AWS on resume. Of course, some things have to give, like the global CND, and some data guarantees. Everything is a compromise. It's all depend of what is important for your p…
> The entire team is composed of half of one dev. Who is on-call 24/7/365, never takes vacation ever, and is always available to fix the website? It’s weird how much HN hates jobs with on-call requirements, but every time cloud services come up the solutions always involve forcing someone to be permanently on call to save a few hundred dollars per month in hosting costs.
Like.. what are you expecting to happen? You'll just gaslight them into thinking they dont know how their business works?
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> The entire team is composed of half of one dev. Who is on-call 24/7/365, never takes vacation ever, and is always available to fix the website? It’s weird how much HN hates jobs with on-call requirements, but every time cloud services come up the solutions always involve forcing someone to be permanently on call to save a few hundred dollars per month in hosting costs.
I think it's bizarre you're giving cloud marketing material to a person, whose in a position to know their own situation , as-if you were describing their situation. Like.. what are you expecting to happen? You'll just gaslight them into thinking they dont know how their business works?