Kenneth Miller wrote: > I'm looking for a solution that would allow me to securely use > VPSs (hosted VMs) or hosted dedicated servers as nodes in a > distributed file system. My bandwidth/speed requirements aren't high, > space requirements are potentially huge and ever growing, superb > security is a must, but I really don't want to worry about hosting the > DFS in-house. Is there any solution that's capable of this and/or is > there anyone currently doing this? > I think you can use Amazon EC2 + Amazon S3. You pay per gigabyte per month stored on S3, and per machine hour of EC2 virtual machine instance. So you even can scale your system automatically depending on load -- introduce new EC2 instances or switch them off.
(However it depends on software you want to run on servers -- do it really need working with mountable filesystem or you can introduce some filesystem abstraction layer to store files/metadata on S3?) Alexey. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Ceph-devel mailing list Ceph-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ceph-devel
