You can find a docker-compose.yml file to get some idea.
Appears to be using MariaDB.
They shut down OCSP responders and expiry email reminders, so there really is no need to have a database apart from rate limits, auth data, and caching.
For Certificate Transparency, they are submitted to Google and CloudFlare run trees but I don't think LetsEncrypt run their own logs.
Not really: burstable (“t”) instances haven't been updated in years. The current generation (“t4g”) still use Graviton2 processors. I get the impression that they would vastly prefer cost-conscious users to use spot instances.
Ah, thank you for pointing these out! I'd missed the introduction of “flex” instance types (apparently in May last year[0] – still long overdue relative to the introduction of T4g in September 2020[1]). Curious that so far, they all appear to be Intel-based (C7i, M7i, C8i, M8i, and R8i). M7i-flex instances also cost 45% more than the corresponding T4g instances. That's sort of understandable, as the generational improvements probably bring more than 45% better performance for most workloads, but it also makes them harder to justify for the sorts of long-running,-mostly-idle duties they're being touted for.
If you're interested in the underlying technology of flex there's some reinvent talks from last year on YouTube where they acknowledge it's based on VM live migration which is I think the first public reference to AWS using migration in their products.
I suspect the burstable types were always priced too cheaply and were more about attracting the cheap market segment which they don't need now in the days of AI money.
Burstable pricing gets complex quick when adding in the option to burst to full usage. Flex seems a lot simpler which is great.
Crazy this has so little upvotes. I thought it was a very good discussion with lots of interesting perspectives. I assume, the "wisdom" of the HN crowd see's Rogan and goes... Nope.
Jensen Huang is an incredible storyteller. Lots of wisdom and original stories of the start of NVIDIA, how Sega helps them, the origin of FSD Tesla and OpenAI. Lots of personal and the growth of Jensen himself. Respectful.
The very end of the interview where he talks about coming to America and going to school in Kentucky (very rough and poor area) was a great story that most people don't know about him.
I'm looking at deploying SeaWeedFS but the problem is cloud block storage costs. I need 3-4TB and Vultr costs $62.50/mo for 2.5TB. DigitalOcean $300/mo for 3TB. AWS using legacy magnetic EBS storage $150/mo... GCP persistent disk standard $120/mo.
Any alternatives besides racking own servers?
*EDIT* Did a little ChatGPT and it recommended tiny t4g.micro then use EBS of type cold HDD (sc1). Not gonna be fast, but for offsite backup will probably do the trick.
I'm confused why you would want to turn an expensive thing (cloud block storage) into a cheaper thing (cloud object storage) with worse durability in a way that is more effort to run?
I'm not saying it's wrong since I don't know what it's for, I'm just wondering what the use-case could be.
I've quickly come to this conclusion. Essentially looking for offsite backup of my NAS and currently paying around $15-$20/mo to Backblaze. I thought I might be able to roll my own object store for cheaper but that was idiotic. :-)
Totally fair. There are some situations where you can "undercut" cloud native object storage on a per TB basis (e.g. you have a big dedi at Hetzner with 50TB or 100TB of mirrored disk) but you pay a cost in operational overhead and durability vs managed object store. It's really hard to make the economics work at $20 price point, if you get up to a few $100 or more then there are some situations where it can make sense.
For backup to a dedi you don't really need to bother running the object store though.
> I get asked the same about terminals all the time. “How will you turn this into a business? What’s the monetization strategy?” The monetization strategy is that my bank account has 3 commas mate.
I would assume it's not sitting in his checking account. He hopefully has wealth advisors; earning interest, investments, tax strategies. Mitchell is super smart, so almost certainly not sitting in a checking account.
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