Linode Announces Object Storage

raindog308

I guess all the cool kids have to offer this now.

https://www.linode.com/products/object-storage/?utm_source=lowendtalk&utm_medium=lowendtalk&utm_campaign=lowendtalk-potato

Who's next? @Francisco? @HostMantis?

ITLabs

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Prem!

donli

@raindog308 said:
I guess all the cool kids have to offer this now.

https://www.linode.com/products/object-storage/?utm_source=lowendtalk&utm_medium=lowendtalk&utm_campaign=lowendtalk-potato

1 TB = $ 20.

Who's next? @Francisco?

BuyVM already does "storage slabs".

https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/

Francisco

donli said: BuyVM already does "storage slabs".

https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/

There's a lot of other things i'd want to develop (like a new build of stallion) before I jumped into trying to build out an object store.

Francisco

greattomeetyou

Up to 100,000 Objects per Cluster

What does that mean?
100,000 files?

donli

@greattomeetyou said:

Up to 100,000 Objects per Cluster

What does that mean?
100,000 files?

They are "S3 type objects". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3

The basic storage units of Amazon S3 are objects which are organized into buckets.
Each object is identified by a unique, user-assigned key.
Buckets can be managed using either the console provided by Amazon S3, programmatically using the AWS SDK, or with the Amazon S3 REST application programming interface (API).
Objects can be managed using the AWS SDK or with the Amazon S3 REST API and can be up to five terabytes in size with two kilobytes of metadata.
Additionally, objects can be downloaded using the HTTP GET interface and the BitTorrent protocol.

bulbasaur

@Francisco why not simply use ceph+radosgw or minio?

SirFoxy

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BlaZe

Clean link: https://www.linode.com/products/object-storage/
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I'd wait for a couple of months so that any possible issues/bugs in their infra/setup gets fixed in due time.

EDIT:
Already tried DigitalOcean's object storage for few MBs of stuff.
I'm totally on BuyVM's slabs now

fpmagic

Objects are replicated across servers so they’re always accessible even if one of the servers goes offline.

How many servers? Are they guaranteed to be in different racks? I would like to see some guarantees around this - AWS for example standard class S3 object storage is tripled replicate across 3 availability zones (datacenter in same region) - I not expecting S3 level of replication safety at Linode prices but I would like the information.

100,000 files?

Generally since that's the abstraction most consumers of object stroage work with, however it doesn't needed to be, its just a stream of bytes labelled with an identifier..