[150242] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Colo Vending Machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anurag Bhatia)
Mon Feb 20 00:42:09 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbVF+6Nbx4jKSe5yB8FuF+-9FmfDu8h265h+Qba91+9bUg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:11:12 +0530
From: Anurag Bhatia <me@anuragbhatia.com>
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
Cc: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Nice idea of future! :)
Btw as side question - I heard transfer rates from S3 are capped badly.
Something like 5-10Mbps. Is that true? Anyone of you ever came across such
cap?
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This gives me an idea. The vending machine could also sell hosting.
> > Sometimes, the box just won't come back to life and you need somewhere
> > to stuff the data. *grin*
>
> How about a vending machine, where you insert a hard drive, swipe your
> card,
> and it either gets vaulted to S3 or an EC2 intance is spawned on the
> cloud, and the data on the drive becomes the instance's boot media and
> gets streamed to the instance storage over a 10-gigabit connection
> from the vending machine, until all the data's uploaded.
>
> That solves the problem of end users getting their data to the hosting
> provider quickly, with no need to stress out their low-speed WAN.
>
> --
> -JH
>
>
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