| At startup grade, it‘s fine to stick and grow with IaaS provider like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or whatever you like. However, you‘ll get to a point, where it‘s crucial to become profitable. And storing that much data does cost a lot of money using one of the mentioned providers. So, when you think it‘s the right time to become “mature”, then get your own servers up and running using colocation. What options do you have here (just a quick brainstorm):
1. Set up some servers, put in a lot of hard drives, format them using zfs and make it available using nfs on your network
2. Get some storage servers
3. Set up a Ceph cluster I used to work as a CTO at a hosting company and evaluated all of these options and more. Every of these options comes with pros and cons. Just one last advice: Evaluate your options and get some external help on this. Any of these options have pitfalls and you need experienced consultants to set up and run such an infrastructure. All in all, it’s an invest, that will save you a lot of money and will give you freedom and flexibility to grow further. P.S. we ended up setting up a Ceph cluster. We found a partner, who’s specialized on hosting custom infrastructures. That partner is responsible for all the maintenance, so we could focus on the product itself. |