These are actual real problems we face. thousands of customers load and reload TBs of data every few seconds on their dashboards. We have busy servers. We tried cloud. I passionately hate it. We choose to use Bare Metal.
On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 10:34, Akshay Kumar <aks...@mongodb.com> wrote: > Go look at the actual specifications for one of the metal boxes - you are > not going to come close to maxing anything out with the workload you > describe. FSB hasn't been a thing in over a decade. If you really wanted to > go crazy you could do some build a custom solution in FPGA on the F1s. > > It's a moot point since none of this is going to be available in time but > perf is a bogus reason and a lot of the times price is too. > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 5:12 PM Ken Gilmour <ken.gilm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Speed is not the issue, it's IO. Also streaming 100Gbps of video is very >> different to streaming 100Gbps of files smaller than 100kb (average of >> about 30kb) the issue on the network level is the number of connections and >> CPU, on the server side it's IO and FSB >> >> On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 08:55, Akshay Kumar <aks...@mongodb.com> 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. >>> >>> Just just use the South Africa AWS region. >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:35 PM Ken Gilmour <ken.gilm...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Folks, >>>> >>>> I work for a Security Analytics org and we're looking to build a small >>>> POP in Africa. I am pretty clueless about the region so I was wondering if >>>> you could help guide me in the right direction for research? >>>> >>>> The challenges: >>>> >>>> 1. Network needs to be able to receive millions of small PPS (as >>>> opposed to serving smaller numbers of larger files). >>>> 2. Can't be cloud (need bare metal servers / colo). We use the full >>>> capacity of each server, all the time. >>>> 3. Must have good connectivity to most of the rest of Africa >>>> 4. We can initially only have one POP >>>> >>>> This is not like a normal website that we can just host on "any old >>>> provider", the requirements are very different. >>>> >>>> Is there a good location where we could either rent bare metal servers >>>> (something like Internap - preferred) or colocate servers within Africa >>>> that can serve most of the region? >>>> >>>> "Good" is defined as an area with stable connectivity and power, no >>>> legal restrictions on things like encryption, and good latency (sub 100ms) >>>> to the rest of Africa. >>>> >>>> Our two closest POPs are in Singapore and The Netherlands, so I'd like >>>> something closer to the middle that can serve the rest of Africa. Middle >>>> East will be deployed after Africa. >>>> >>>> I hope this is the right place to ask. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> Ken >>>> >>>
