Comments on: What a web business wants from storage http://storagemojo.com/2007/05/03/what-a-web-business-wants-from-storage/ Data storage info & analysis Sun, 20 May 2012 13:26:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Beth http://storagemojo.com/2007/05/03/what-a-web-business-wants-from-storage/comment-page-1/#comment-60813 Beth Fri, 04 May 2007 01:21:42 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=449#comment-60813 Robin, I was surprised that you didn't mention how 95% of SmugMug's storage (including the backup copies of all those photos) resides on Amazon S3. Don has blogged pretty extensively about this, but http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2006/08/12/amazon-s3-the-holy-grail/ is a good overview of SmugMug's S3 strategy. Robin, I was surprised that you didn’t mention how 95% of SmugMug’s storage (including the backup copies of all those photos) resides on Amazon S3. Don has blogged pretty extensively about this, but http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2006/08/12/amazon-s3-the-holy-grail/ is a good overview of SmugMug’s S3 strategy.

]]> By: Don MacAskill http://storagemojo.com/2007/05/03/what-a-web-business-wants-from-storage/comment-page-1/#comment-60809 Don MacAskill Fri, 04 May 2007 01:12:25 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=449#comment-60809 Hi Robin, Thanks for the links and insightful commentary! Not knowing if you're a regular reader of my blog, you might be interested to hear that on the other end of the storage spectrum, we're a huge user of Amazon's S3 product. To the tune of more than 200TB. We also have our own internal filesystem we still use which was built prior to S3 - and it's very similar in concept to S3/GoogleFS/MogileFS/etc. So on one end of the spectrum (our database end), we need super fast I/O, and lots of it. On the other end, we need big huge capacity and reliability. So we span the gamut. Search for "Amazon S3" on my blog to find all of the relevant posts if you're curious - I write a lot about it. My ETech slides are probably the most recent and relevant. Hi Robin,

Thanks for the links and insightful commentary!

Not knowing if you’re a regular reader of my blog, you might be interested to hear that on the other end of the storage spectrum, we’re a huge user of Amazon’s S3 product. To the tune of more than 200TB. We also have our own internal filesystem we still use which was built prior to S3 – and it’s very similar in concept to S3/GoogleFS/MogileFS/etc.

So on one end of the spectrum (our database end), we need super fast I/O, and lots of it. On the other end, we need big huge capacity and reliability. So we span the gamut.

Search for “Amazon S3″ on my blog to find all of the relevant posts if you’re curious – I write a lot about it. My ETech slides are probably the most recent and relevant.

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