The software hypervisor scales the stack vertically and relies on the software to load balance horizontally. Power consumption of the appliances in a rack mount environment are too high and leave needed space that has to stay empty because of the facility power per rack limitations.ģ. Network throughput on the appliance is fast but for an Enterprise level the 10gigE cards used become a bottleneck for transactions because of how the software hypervisor scales the data.Ģ. Some of the major issues I have seen with all the appliances out there for storage are the following:ġ. I am curious on the hardware build out used for the storage nodes. Until prices really drops(if they ever will) I'll continue thinking that clouds are for temporary workloads or prototyping with the ability to easily scale at a high cost. I think using cloud providers for somewhat high bandwidth services are basically throwing money out the window.

Never used OVH myself, but they are providing 2 Gbps at £340/month for their highest quality bandwidth, and £64/month for bandwidth they think would be good for downloads. A dedicated 1 Gbps is about 300 USD/month with my provider, and the prices drops hard for dedicated 10, 40 and 100 Gbps uplinks. With colocation or renting dedicated servers and IP-transit you can get way lower prices.

I'd say that is very cheap compared to AWS pricing at $0.05/GB above 350 TB. I'm currently using a provider that runs openstack and I'm paying less than $0.009/GB, from the first byte(no commitment). The thing is, even for smaller companies it's easy to get way better deals on bandwidth. While I don't know what pricing AWS has for high bandwidth customers since it's not public, I do know that the public prices are really high.

Dropbox cost 2017