alt Hacker NewsThis isn’t a like for like comparison though, is it.
You removed all of their logging and all of their redundancy and reliability and replaced it with shitters that will all explode if the small providers one data centre goes down.
And if someone penetrates this mega server, they’ll be able to wipe all your logs or tamper with them, to hide the attack.
If your storage servers go down, everything they have is gone. And these providers don’t offer the finest hardware. How do you know all of those drives aren’t from the same batch? They will be, because they’re a bulk buyer with a single data centre.
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> How do you know all of those drives aren’t from the same batch?
Because it's explicitly something you can request when doing your server order from your vendor. In this particular case several years ago, Nutanix did good.
>You removed all of their logging and all of their redundancy and reliability and replaced it with shitters that will all explode if the small providers one data centre goes down.
they'll never need it, a misconfiguration on those service ends up costing several grands.
>If your storage servers go down, everything they have is gone
It’s just logs for an app server, not some banking critical info that will cause a panic if lost. Most of what they are using for logging is for finding some errors, not for mission-critical things which must not be lost.