Re: Colo in Africa

[Ken Gilmour <ken.gilmour () gmail com>]

Thanks for all the replies! (really fast!)

The requirement for Bare Metal is very specific. Dealing with high speed
large files is very different to dealing with high volume small files. We
regularly encounter bottlenecks at the FSB and at the IO level. Even things
like RAID slows us down, so we have to squeeze every iota of power out of
the servers that we can. Plus, most of our customers in Africa use our free
version so cost savings are also important, and so is accessibility.

On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 09:10, Bryan Fields <Bryan () bryanfields net> wrote:

> On 7/16/19 10:55 AM, Akshay Kumar via NANOG wrote:
> > The 2nd requirement seems artificial. The new hypervisors have come a
> long
> > way and the overhead is minimal. Also you can run bare metal instances in
> > AWS if you really need them with 100Gbps.
>
> Well the man wants bare metal, and while there's arguments for and against
> it,
> it's what he wants to buy :)
>
> That said, I'm one of those guys that likes owing my own hypervisor, don't
> need to worry about the side channel/memory/OOO execution attacks from
> rogue
> VM's if it's only my VM's on it.  Plus AWS ain't cheap either.
>
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