Colo in Africa

Tue Jul 16 16:39:59 UTC 2019

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 <akshay at 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.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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