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Re:FRA1 Block Storage Issue by mattbillenstein on Sunday April 01, 2018 @04:05PM (#16730144)
The bandwidth charges are hefty if you're moving a lot of bits, but I wouldn't use anything other than S3 or GCS probably -- the other guys just don't have a track record of reliability yet.

But, you can build a poor-man's CDN -- varnish caches on DO/Linode/whatever where you get multiple terabytes of bandwidth for a small VM. So, you use the best object storage provider, but move most of the bits cheaply using Varnish + Route53 geo-dns.

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Re:FRA1 Block Storage Issue by eropple on Sunday April 01, 2018 @04:07PM (#16730154)
That's definitely on the table. Time-consuming, though.
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Re:FRA1 Block Storage Issue by mattbillenstein on Sunday April 01, 2018 @04:16PM (#16730210)
It's more to manage for sure, but something that can be built in a day or three.
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Re:FRA1 Block Storage Issue by avtar on Sunday April 01, 2018 @05:58PM (#16730733)
Building is arguably the easy part. Managing and supporting is a different story.
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Re:FRA1 Block Storage Issue by eropple on Sunday April 01, 2018 @06:25PM (#16730884)
Exactly - TCO is the core problem.
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