Colo in Africa

Tue Jul 16 16:33:42 UTC 2019

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.gilmour at 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 <akshay at 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.gilmour at 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
>>>
>>
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