alt Hacker NewsSelf Hosted object storage looks neat!
For this project, where you have 120GB of customer data, and thirty requests a second for ~8k objects (0.25MB/s object reads), you’d seem to be able to 100x the throughput vertically scaling on one machine with a file system and an SSD and never thinking about object storage. Would love to see why the complexity
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jakewins • today at 3:26 PM
The complexity for that is almost always for redundancy and for ease of deploys.
(Author here) that's more or less what I have right now – one machine with a file system and an SSD. S3 API on top is there to give multiple web servers shared access to the same storage. I could have used something else instead of S3 – say, NFS – but there was a feature request for S3 [1] and S3 has a big ecosystem around it already.
[1] https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/issues/609