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ankurs
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Storage Solution

#1 Postby ankurs » Oct 24, 2009 5:27 am

What are big sites using for storage ? SAN or normal servers , how do u cope with old files which just take space and have very few downloaders.

I can keep adding FS servers just for sake of increasing storage capacity.

Can someone shed some light on this.

GMC
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Re: Storage Solution

#2 Postby GMC » Oct 24, 2009 6:42 am

ankurs wrote:What are big sites using for storage ? SAN or normal servers , how do u cope with old files which just take space and have very few downloaders.

I can keep adding FS servers just for sake of increasing storage capacity.

Can someone shed some light on this.
This is something I am interesting in knowing as well

I am currently upgrading my normal run of the mill server to a larger one more ram more connectivity more disk space

But - I am unsure of the next step

Do I just keep adding these - or is there a better way?


I look forward to replys to this

GMC

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#3 Postby ankurs » Oct 25, 2009 12:23 pm

Can some of the big file hosters , share some tips ? would appreciate it.

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#4 Postby sherayusuf3 » Oct 26, 2009 8:42 am

ankurs wrote:Can some of the big file hosters , share some tips ? would appreciate it.

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/pe ... ud-storage

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#5 Postby ankurs » Oct 26, 2009 10:04 am

sherayusuf3 wrote:
ankurs wrote:Can some of the big file hosters , share some tips ? would appreciate it.

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/pe ... ud-storage
lol thats the link i posted in forum yesterday

i am talking about FS setups not backup servers , the backblaze server setup cant handel thousands of users at a time

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#6 Postby GMC » Oct 28, 2009 4:16 am

I guess no body wants to give us any of their secrets

lol

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#7 Postby ankurs » Oct 28, 2009 5:18 am

GMC wrote:I guess no body wants to give us any of their secrets

lol
Seems so :( , not even sibsoft is helping or suggesting anything

this is a basic problem which most sites face sooner or later

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#8 Postby PilgrimX182 » Oct 28, 2009 8:08 am

Believe me, SibSoft is not dealing with high capacity/traffic servers :) Some of our clients do.

This is totally up to you to decide what to do with old files - delete or keep them on HDD for rare visitors. That's the marketing decision.

And sure big successfull players won't share their secrets cause way too many players on this market these days.