Re: Colo Vending Machine

[Mike Lyon <mike.lyon () gmail com>]

My rsync appeared to be running at 20+ Mbps to S3 last night...

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On Feb 19, 2012, at 21:41, Anurag Bhatia <me () anuragbhatia com> wrote:

> 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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