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[freshwire]

So BenB and I were talking about the amazing emoticons on OVH that I have missed so much (and also something about servers). If one were to buy 30 of the 100mb unlimited servers would OVH freak out?

We were working on a server with some 22TB disk (with raid redundancy) and 2 bonded gigabit connections using 1gb/s+ average. It was slow with all the disk trashing. I suggested buying 20-30 of these little servers and having the site automatically manage load between them by having multiple copies of the more popular files.

Doubt that this will actually happen. Too much stress for us to setup 30 servers but we would like to know what OVH thinks about this? Do have customers who make large purchases like that regularly?

Unrelated: Was Fozl staff a while ago? His account says BANNED

[Andy]

The 100Mbps unlimited are priced accordingly, so you should be fine with buying as many as you like. Same with 1Gbps.

[unclebob]

If you want to increase your stress even more but reduce your costs then go for the regular Superplan Minis at £44.99 and buy ~22TB additional traffic each month at £0.89*22, saving you £25.42 per server per month.

Or even go with Kimsufi 2Gs (if it's just static file serving) and save £51.97 on each server

[Thelen]

30 100Mbit unmetered is fine, I can personally say 92 of the SP mini were totally fine

You'll see I have a thread about extra bandwidth, but that won't apply to you

[Myatu]

Oi Monkey!!

Can't you use a VKS or mC for this, depending on how large the actual file(s) are? Assuming that OVH doesn't have all the VKS on the same SAN, that would still reduce the bottleneck issue.

[freshwire]

@Myatu we would need to have 200 of the large VKS to get the ~20TB disk space. What is mC? Do you mean the private cloud? It is expensive just for the disk and usually the bandwidth is the expensive thing so..

@unclebob Ye that seems like a decent option too. We are far from invested in any idea yet. It was just a light discussion.

[Myatu]

With mC I meant OVH's VPS. Hmm, but do you need the full 20TB for the most frequent files though? Was thinking about off-loading: least requested files stay put, files requested often get placed on their own VPS/VKS - if the file is less than 25GB, you're OK to use the VKS. If what file gets served most changes often, you could use a public cloud instance instead. But all depends on situation though, just throwing in some peanuts...

[freshwire]

So what servers would you use for storage long term then with the proposal above?

[Myatu]

If it's a hand full of files, less than 25GB a pop, and you can pinpoint them from, say, log files, then simply a VKS should do fine, IMO. Otherwise, it would become a bit more complex, and I'd go for a public cloud instance. If it's a lot of large files (say, 1TB out of the 20-some TB), then a cloud instance/VKS is no longer and would opt for a dedicated box instead. That's just me though...

[Thelen]

Check out backup series?