Exciting because we love the idea of deploying a 450TB zpool in a 4U chassis ...
Frustrating because we will have to keep reworking our price per GB.
With that in mind, our new attic/borg[1] support has dropped down to 3 cents per GB, per month to kind-of-sort-of match S3 pricing[2].
Hey, thanks! I stopped reading there. :)
However, it would be nice to know a little about the company. I perused your website, but didn't see any pages about the company history and current employees. Did I miss that? I did finally see the "CEO page", but it doesn't seem to be linked from the main page. It also appears to be something a technical person shows their CEO, rather than something that is about the CEO of rsync.net. I also didn't even see a physical address displayed anywhere.
Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't feel comfortable dealing with such a black box business situation.
Perhaps you need to add a second disclaimer?
If you want to know who you're doing business with,
our product is Not for You.FWIW, I'm John Kozubik, owner and founder, and we started offering this service in 2001 as an add-on to JohnCompanies colocation (the first VPS provider)[1][2]. We spun rsync.net out as a standalone entity in 2006.
Address is 524 San Anselmo Ave., Suite 107, San Anselmo, CA 94960. Although data is housed in either San Diego, Fremont, Denver, Zurich or Hong Kong datacenters.
[1] Yes, really.
[2] We called them "server instances" - someone else coined "VPS" and it stuck.
You don't have to pass every savings on to the consumer, you know.
borg appears to be much healthier as a project, has a lot of steam behind it, and has some additional flexibility in block sizes, etc., so we think that's the train to hitch your wagon to ...
Dell also has their DSS7000, which is 90 drives in a 4U system, so 900 TB in a single 4U package...
9 Petabyte of storage in a single 42U rack...
So if you are optimizing for rackspace, it might make sense, but if you're keeping costs down, the 45 drive chassis is the best bet.
That was depressing circa the first BB pods where there really wasn't another option (other than using a Sun Thumper/x4500, which we also considered) ... but now the chassis options from supermicro are so good - ranging from 45-90 drives - that it's not a problem at all.
You might be able to get better density for similar pricing. Just a suggestion :-)
But yes, we will deploy arrays with 6TB very soon.