Comments on: How I would run a cloud service http://www.brandonleblanc.com/2009/12/19/how-i-would-run-a-cloud-service/ The Personal Blog for Brandon LeBlanc. Warning - many rants ahead! Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Aidan Finn http://www.brandonleblanc.com/2009/12/19/how-i-would-run-a-cloud-service/comment-page-1/#comment-4878 Aidan Finn Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:33:21 +0000 http://www.brandonleblanc.com/?p=44#comment-4878 I've been working in the online biz for around 3 years now. The big issues I've encountered have always revolved around power - either the price of it or the sudden and immediate lack of it. So I'd focus on power. The generation of it starts with the usuals. I've been told of Scandinavian data centres that have their own wind turbines. They are located where there is a near constant supply of wind. Oversupply is sold into the grid. That cuts down costs nicely. It also allows for a 2-supply system - turbine failure -> pull power from the grid. In Iceland, we're told the new data centres generate power using the natural volcanic heat from the ground. The same solution can be applied there. And both systems are carbon neutral - if you happen to believe or care in such things. The multi replicating site approach (hmm, with our data centre being next toor to a certain one in Dublin, Ireland) sounds very familiar :-) It also allows the use of the lower cost container based approach. Less (almost no) aircon, modular systems, using less power and less real estate. And if it is going to be called Brandon Skynet then it needs an army of droid operators - just to keep things going and nothing to do with world domination! I’ve been working in the online biz for around 3 years now. The big issues I’ve encountered have always revolved around power – either the price of it or the sudden and immediate lack of it. So I’d focus on power.

The generation of it starts with the usuals. I’ve been told of Scandinavian data centres that have their own wind turbines. They are located where there is a near constant supply of wind. Oversupply is sold into the grid. That cuts down costs nicely. It also allows for a 2-supply system – turbine failure -> pull power from the grid. In Iceland, we’re told the new data centres generate power using the natural volcanic heat from the ground. The same solution can be applied there. And both systems are carbon neutral – if you happen to believe or care in such things.

The multi replicating site approach (hmm, with our data centre being next toor to a certain one in Dublin, Ireland) sounds very familiar :-) It also allows the use of the lower cost container based approach. Less (almost no) aircon, modular systems, using less power and less real estate.

And if it is going to be called Brandon Skynet then it needs an army of droid operators – just to keep things going and nothing to do with world domination!

]]> By: drew http://www.brandonleblanc.com/2009/12/19/how-i-would-run-a-cloud-service/comment-page-1/#comment-2691 drew Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:39 +0000 http://www.brandonleblanc.com/?p=44#comment-2691 Ok , not bad but I'll see that and raise you one order of magnitude. Replace the node storage with routers that like bit torrent split the load . In other words encrypt and send storage to many multitudes of users whose computers become the cloud for themseles and for their neighbors and to participate we volunteer a portion and a partitition to the cloud.Like I said encyrption, and data splitting prevent privacy loss and each bit of data could be backed up on many computers.The benifit is of course is that failure of one or two machines is possible but not of a dozen. Of course the trick is the redundency of the router and encryption network. I feel that this could be backed up in real time across several parallel systems TTFN Drew Schlais Ok , not bad but I’ll see that and raise you one order of magnitude. Replace the node storage with routers that like bit torrent split the load . In other words encrypt and send storage to many multitudes of users whose computers become the cloud for themseles and for their neighbors and to participate we volunteer a portion and a partitition to the cloud.Like I said encyrption, and data splitting prevent privacy loss and each bit of data could be backed up on many computers.The benifit is of course is that failure of one or two machines is possible but not of a dozen. Of course the trick is the redundency of the router and encryption network. I feel that this could be backed up in real time across several parallel systems
TTFN Drew Schlais

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