Local network storage service
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Would you be likely to sign up for a service that sold, say, 50GB blocks of guaranteed (non-oversold) disk space, accessed via NFS over the private network? What features would make it or break it for you?
Thanks for the feedback!
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@syzygy:
What features would make it or break it for you?
Additional bandwidth of free but limited channel, to use it as CDN.
Using the current backup model that linode has they charge $5/month/80gb of backup space.. I would happily subscribe to a similar format to this and have access to reasonably fast storage.
@OZ:
Additional bandwidth of free but limited channel, to use it as CDN.
As in direct, public WWW access to the storage? Interesting idea! Given how many good public CDNs already exist, though, I'm not sure it makes sense to add that complexity.
I just edited the first post to make this a poll. Just trying to gauge interest.
@syzygy:
Given how many good public CDNs already exist, though, I'm not sure it makes sense to add that complexity.
Not all services are equally good.
I know by my own experience that Linode is very good and I just don't want to spend my time and money to learn, which one CDN is good and which one is not.
And without public www access it will mean common bandwidth with linode, so it will be almost useless for me (big storage means big traffic in my opinion).
@OZ:
@syzygy:Given how many good public CDNs already exist, though, I'm not sure it makes sense to add that complexity.
Not all services are equally good.I know by my own experience that Linode is very good and I just don't want to spend my time and money to learn, which one CDN is good and which one is not.
And without public www access it will mean common bandwidth with linode, so it will be almost useless for me (big storage means big traffic in my opinion).
OP said that the service would be accessed over the private network, so traffic between your Linode and your storage won't be billed. As for outbound traffic, it's very easy to add extra bandwidth to your Linode, and the price is actually competitive with major CDNs.
@hybinet:
As for outbound traffic, it's very easy to add extra bandwidth to your Linode, and the price is actually competitive with major CDNs.
I want be able to choose limited but free bandwidth. In my wild country it's most popular variant, but I don't want to use any hosting from my country - too wild:)
Anyway, Christopher Aker in other theme said they aren't going to do something with storages, so I think this poll will not give any effect.
@gregr:
I'd love it, myself, if it was in the same facility as my nodes. Doesn't even have to be NFS-mounted - something like S3-style, HTTP-only access, would be great. I'd even pay the same price as S3 if necessary - but having super fast latency and access over the private network would be great.
Impossible unless Linode themselves offer such a service.