The article explains that they have database and API usage. You can't run a high-throughput database on spinning disks unless you disregard data integrity.
It's not just a static fileserver, despite some of the comparisons in this thread.
It's not just a static fileserver, despite some of the comparisons in this thread.
> You can't run a high-throughput database on spinning disks unless you disregard data integrity
Of course you can. That's the way it was and still is done. I'd say one can't run a database with any data integrity unless there are disks spinning somewhere very near.
I'd take another box for like $40 there just for the replica, which would sit mostly idle anyways.
But piling on CDNs, clouds and variuos other opex and indeterminate risks instead of some thinking out of this little cloud shoebox is just baffling.