Racked today, entire hosting solution based on Vates stack
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Nice! We also have a pretty big partner in your island. Glad to see XCP-ng and the Vates stack is booming in there
(I've been visiting last March, for an entire week, it was wonderful) -
@Pilow nice! what are the individuell server specs and storage? please share more
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@Henrik 1Tb RAM per host on production and replication, storage is 25Gb fiber channel, fully multipathed iSCSI (so yeah... thick provisionning lvmoiscsi...
SANs are thin storage backend, its reliable and redundant but lvmoiscsi is storage hungry, need to have good monitoring !).one host on each node have local raid5 SSD storage, where we put our own management&automation vms, clients are on shared storage
S3 minios on iSCSI as remotes, cross backuped between the two nodes with xoproxies on each end.
designed to be fully resilient with the less SPOF inside
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@Pilow That's a very nice setup, cool to see some real enterprise hardware for once in this thread
Also, thanks for informing me about Reunion Island, never heard of the place before and had to look it up on google. How many datacenters can you choose from on this island? Whats the connectivity like, is it very expensive with fiber and ip-transit? -
@nikade there are many local datacenter operators (ZEOP/OMEGA1/SFR/IDOM/CANAL+/FREE)
I chose SFR because they have connectivity also upto Mayotte Island (look it up too
) where we have clients that will profit our hosting solution on Reunion Island.Many submarine cables reach us (oldest one is the SAFE : South Africa - Far East to Asia) and some new submarine cables to Africa.
Fiber connectivity exists, not cheap
for the x2paths 10Gb between the nodes you can count 3K€/month (no internet, just data)
100Mb symmetric internet connectivity from datacenter, with good SLAs, 500€/mReal challenge to be in the middle of an ocean.
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@Pilow Cool, you have now taught me something new, again
I find it very interesting that there is hosting business on these islands, I kind of expected everyone to use the cloud since it would be expensive to establish a datacenter precense on those islands.Prices do seem expensive, im in Sweden and we have a lot of fiber and ip-transits here.
We pay about €300 per month for 10G CWDM between our datacenters, €550 for redundant (2 paths). Distance is about 10-20km.IP-transit depends on the provider, we have 3 different ones, and we have different "deals" from each one of them. We mostly do 1G with 100-200Mbit/s but from our main provider which is 10G with a 1G traffic commit we pay about €375 per month. This price is mainly because I know one of the guys who works there + we're a big customer of theirs.
For comparison we pay about €300 for the other 1G with 100Mbit traffic commit...
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@nikade so our 10G WDM is ten times your price (but redundancy included :')
check here for a cool map
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Yes but at least you have plenty of sun to enjoy during the whole year. Even in middle of winter, you can still eat lunch outside at 20°C
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@olivierlambert and hurricanes saeson from November to march
ha, we have an active volcano on the island too
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Obviously, you need some fun otherwise it would be boring
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@olivierlambert said in Racked today, entire hosting solution based on Vates stack:
Obviously, you need some fun otherwise it would be boring
Haha yeah "fun"
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@Pilow well you seem to have a nice setup, I am looking forward to more pictures!
I wish I could share ours, but im not allowed to
