One of our latest internal servers here has pretty much the same config (except we don't have the 50TB worth of HDDs, that sounds more like one of our file servers). Are you leasing this in the cloud or did you buy your own?
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Hey @blocktrades,
Potato disks are not HDDs, it was a joke that I made during my first announcement of the node. Regarding the lease/building, it's currently a lease. Though it's definitely in my plans one day to basically build one on my own and then colo it in somewhere. Unfortunately, PC/server part costs in Turkey are quite steep.
At the very least, I'd like to lease several servers in different datacenters/countries and Anycast it. In an ideal world, I'd love to have a server in NA, EU and SEA.
Potato disks:
Ah, that's too bad, was thinking could make a nice backup for our image server. It's pretty amazing what you can build in file servers now. We just built one with 8 16TB in a RAID configuration (90TB effective space after 2 disks worth of space allocated to error correction) and a 1 TB NVME drive as a cache. So 50TB didn't sound that unreasonable :-)
Hmm, it's really not that hard to get a very big fileserver with NVMe caching, just expensive.
Hopefully, one day. If I get to Top 20 and Hive goes up, the first thing I'd like to start with is having more nodes, then who knows, maybe we'll have decentralized image servers too, same with our API nodes? :)
Please spin up a full node in NA(preferably in Chicago). It sucks with most things being in EU.
BW costs are quite high in NA, driving up server prices. Unfortunately, investing in EU this much prevents me from investing in NA for the time being