Colo in Africa

[ken.gilmour at gmail.com (Ken Gilmour)]

These are actual real problems we face. thousands of customers load and
reload TBs of data every few seconds on their dashboards. We have busy
servers. We tried cloud. I passionately hate it. We choose to use Bare
Metal.

On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 10:34, Akshay Kumar <akshay at mongodb.com> wrote:

> Go look at the actual specifications for one of the metal boxes - you are
> not going to come close to maxing anything out with the workload you
> describe. FSB hasn't been a thing in over a decade. If you really wanted to
> go crazy you could do some build a custom solution in FPGA on the F1s.
>
> It's a moot point since none of this is going to be available in time but
> perf is a bogus reason and a lot of the times price is too.
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 5:12 PM Ken Gilmour <ken.gilmour at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Speed is not the issue, it's IO. Also streaming 100Gbps of video is very
>> different to streaming 100Gbps of files smaller than 100kb (average of
>> about 30kb) the issue on the network level is the number of connections and
>> CPU, on the server side it's IO and FSB
>>
>> On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 08:55, Akshay Kumar <akshay at mongodb.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The 2nd requirement seems artificial. The new hypervisors have come a
>>> long way and the overhead is minimal. Also you can run bare metal instances
>>> in AWS if you really need them with 100Gbps.
>>>
>>> Just just use the South Africa AWS region.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:35 PM Ken Gilmour <ken.gilmour at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>
>>>> I work for a Security Analytics org and we're looking to build a small
>>>> POP in Africa. I am pretty clueless about the region so I was wondering if
>>>> you could help guide me in the right direction for research?
>>>>
>>>> The challenges:
>>>>
>>>>    1. Network needs to be able to receive millions of small PPS (as
>>>>    opposed to serving smaller numbers of larger files).
>>>>    2. Can't be cloud (need bare metal servers / colo). We use the full
>>>>    capacity of each server, all the time.
>>>>    3. Must have good connectivity to most of the rest of Africa
>>>>    4. We can initially only have one POP
>>>>
>>>> This is not like a normal website that we can just host on "any old
>>>> provider", the requirements are very different.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a good location where we could either rent bare metal servers
>>>> (something like Internap - preferred) or colocate servers within Africa
>>>> that can serve most of the region?
>>>>
>>>> "Good" is defined as an area with stable connectivity and power, no
>>>> legal restrictions on things like encryption, and good latency (sub 100ms)
>>>> to the rest of Africa.
>>>>
>>>> Our two closest POPs are in Singapore and The Netherlands, so I'd like
>>>> something closer to the middle that can serve the rest of Africa. Middle
>>>> East will be deployed after Africa.
>>>>
>>>> I hope this is the right place to ask.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Ken
>>>>
>>>
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