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Around 2-5 hours/month, mostly powercycling the servers and replacing hard drives

We reached out to almost every colocation space in SF/some in Fremont to get quotes. There wasn't a difference between the quote price and what we ended up paying, though we did negotiate terms + one-time costs.

Thanks!! :)

Definitely much less redundancy, this was definitely a tradeoff we made for pretraining data and cost.

True, this is a large reason why we chose to have the datacenter a couple blocks away from the office.

We're currently 1/1 for the recent 4.3 magnitude earthquake (though if SF crumbles we might lose data)

Thanks! Lots of hard work went into them.

Already filled up and looking to possibly copy and paste :)

True, though this is specifically for pretraining data (S3 wouldn't sell us used disk + no DR storage).

We want to get darkfiber from the datacenter to the office. I love 100Gbps

yeah, exactly! we have a 100G uplink, and then we use nginx secure links that we then just curl from the machines using HTTP. (funnily HTTPS adds overhead so we just pre-sign URLs)