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Re: Parler Hosting Requirements

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Post by ev1 »

h2odragon wrote: post #11
prepperdev wrote: post #2

Copying their requirements as text (original grammar preserved, including GB and Gb confusions). It's a good glimpse of what unlimited cloud budget does to companies. I quote: """ * 40x i3.Metal instances (64 vCPU's, 512 Gb ram (more ram, of course, better for those)), 14 Tb nVME e/a (Scylla cluster) * 70-100x (96 vCPUs, 768 GB RAM) - 4 Tb nVME e/a (PSQL cluster, could use more RAM and CPU, but not easy to get) * 300…

What's that total up to in "expected AWS bill per week", say?

It's at least 6 digits a month for the first item alone not including bandwidth, IP, NATGW, or load balancer

Re: Parler Hosting Requirements

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Post by sschueller »

prepperdev wrote: post #2

Copying their requirements as text (original grammar preserved, including GB and Gb confusions). It's a good glimpse of what unlimited cloud budget does to companies. I quote: """ * 40x i3.Metal instances (64 vCPU's, 512 Gb ram (more ram, of course, better for those)), 14 Tb nVME e/a (Scylla cluster) * 70-100x (96 vCPUs, 768 GB RAM) - 4 Tb nVME e/a (PSQL cluster, could use more RAM and CPU, but not easy to get) * 300…

What language is this thing written in that it requires this kind of computing power? Is it an Electron app? /jk

Re: Parler Hosting Requirements

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Post by tinus_hn »

sschueller wrote: post #22
prepperdev wrote: post #2

Copying their requirements as text (original grammar preserved, including GB and Gb confusions). It's a good glimpse of what unlimited cloud budget does to companies. I quote: """ * 40x i3.Metal instances (64 vCPU's, 512 Gb ram (more ram, of course, better for those)), 14 Tb nVME e/a (Scylla cluster) * 70-100x (96 vCPUs, 768 GB RAM) - 4 Tb nVME e/a (PSQL cluster, could use more RAM and CPU, but not easy to get) * 300…

What language is this thing written in that it requires this kind of computing power? Is it an Electron app? /jk

It’s the server side

Re: Parler Hosting Requirements

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Post by zxspectrum1982 »

floatinglotus wrote: post #9

Gigabit per minute? Do they have a single knowledgeable networking architect on staff? Why not just measure things in random-sized-image-files-per-full-moon?

I'm afraid you have misread.

They are talking about traffic volume (bytes per minute; usually you'd see megabytes or gigabytes per hour but they are massive so they said per minute).

You are talking about transfer speed (bits per second).

You may have a very fast link (transfer speed = 40 Gbps) but transfer very low traffic (1 byte per hour), thus network is mostly idle.

Or you may have a very slow link (100 Mbps FastEthernet) but transfer a ton of traffic (gigabytes per hour), thus network is very busy (which requires good network architecture, server architecture, etc).

As others said: these requirements seem insane for the size of Parler. Maybe they are looking into massive redundancy, different locations, or even doing something else?

Re: Parler Hosting Requirements

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Post by sschueller »

tinus_hn wrote: post #23
sschueller wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What language is this thing written in that it requires this kind of computing power? Is it an Electron app? /jk

It’s the server side

I know, it was supposed to be a joke but I guess I didn't manage to get it across that way.

Re: Parler Hosting Requirements

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Post by touiexpress »

Not sure the original screenshot is true. Some people mentioned a Jarod but he's not listed on Parler's LinkedIn page.

More informations :

- line 1 : the Scylla DB Cluster would cost 59 000 USD according to AWS Calculator. Scylla DB is the C++ version of Apache Cassandra. It's a database.

- line 2 : this sounds like a bunch of postgreSQL server. Estimated price of 250 000 USD. Might be cheaper than Amazon RDS (?)

- line 3 : 400 instances 16 cores 64Gb -> 136 000 USD

Grand total 446 000 USD

We heard that it was around 300k USD on the news, so who can tell if it's true or not... anyway.

I don't see any wordpress nor specific technologies requirements.

Re: Parler Hosting Requirements

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Post by trianglem »

tinus_hn wrote: post #24
trianglem wrote: post #12

Flagged. This has been posted multiple times in the last day. Stop making new accounts repeatedly to get around the rules.

If you want to pretend you’re the moderator of this place, please try and imitate their friendly style.

Why would I lead with the word flagged if I’m trying to imitate a moderator.

Re: Parler Hosting Requirements

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Post by Can_Not »

sschueller wrote: post #26
tinus_hn wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s the server side

I know, it was supposed to be a joke but I guess I didn't manage to get it across that way.

I thought it was clearly a joke, implying they had electron running server-side, maybe even running their app through cypress in production for time travel debugging?

But I actually do want to know they language(s) and framework(s).

Re: Parler Hosting Requirements

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Post by jfengel »

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #18

Everything we’ve seen so far suggests they didn’t (don’t?) have the best tech people working for them, but they do have a lot of money at their disposal. This looks really over-provisioned compared to the reported size of their site, there is no caching layer that I can make out, I bet they are using those forty i3s to host user content as blobs in a database. If they added a couple varnish servers and moved the user…

I'm surprised that they don't have better tech people. HN has a fair number of people expressing support. I'd have thought that they'd be able to attract some engineering volunteers.
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