Re:The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require C...
by johnklos on Saturday June 03, 2023 @08:31AM
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Surely you know what colocation is, don't you? Suggesting someone has to build a datacenter for it is like saying that programming is time consuming because people have to write their own compilers.
If someone asked me to do this, I'd colocate in two locations (likely Europe and west coast USA) two full copies of everything in 1/4 rack. After physically building, testing, installing, then testing some more, which likely would take a month, it'd be a part time job to monitor and babysit for the first few months of use, then it'd be an hour a month maintenance job.
CDNs cost money and come with tons of problems. For non-interactive static files, they're not necessary.
If it requires constant attention, you're doing it wrong :)
If someone asked me to do this, I'd colocate in two locations (likely Europe and west coast USA) two full copies of everything in 1/4 rack. After physically building, testing, installing, then testing some more, which likely would take a month, it'd be a part time job to monitor and babysit for the first few months of use, then it'd be an hour a month maintenance job.
CDNs cost money and come with tons of problems. For non-interactive static files, they're not necessary.
If it requires constant attention, you're doing it wrong :)