Then you are "doing it wrong(tm). Good luck. On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 5:40 PM Ken Gilmour <ken.gilm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 >>>>> >>>>