I moved Infosec.exchange off the ssd-based cache to the regular storage in an attempt to save cash. Already at $100 for the week in bunny.net charges. I’m going to give them a call to see if there’s anything they do to look for attacks designed to run up charges.
@jerry I have had really good luck with bunny, and the did a cross-slack connection with us for issues. good luck
@jerry also bunny is not always clear on ssl speeds, I use a plugin for sensu I wrote https://github.com/DoctorOgg/sensu-check-http-go to keep them in check
GitHub - DoctorOgg/sensu-check-http-go: This is a simple http check plugin, it does not have all the features of the ruby version.

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@jerry thought about using jortage?
@Rairii I haven’t - don’t know much about it. I’ll have to look into it.

@jerry at what point is it cheaper to just buy something rackmounted full of disks?

also i wonder if there's a 'media expiry ttl' you could enact that like, cleans up deleted accounts or old media. or maybe take advantage of xfs block-level deduplication or something?

@Viss I self hosted for a long time and it is indeed far cheaper, even using a rented server. The issue is latency. If could make the price a lot more stable if I rented servers in a few places around the world and subscribed to a geo dns provider.
@jerry oh wow you're big enough to deal with cdn issues. does memcache just not produce enough low latency disk read?
@Viss I’ve not tried memcache for that, but the issue is generally latency across the internet, not (necessarily) with the server/storage. We have about 20000 daily users coming from all over the world, and my CDN usage is about 30-50TB/month
@jerry ah, got it. i wonder if maybe local storage -> fastly or akamai would do? (i have no idea about pricing, though)
@Viss @jerry infosec.exchange.nyud.net
@jerry What all do you have hitting the cache? Are you caching local uploads only or the entire cache too?
@mikey the entire cache
@jerry Have you considered using edge rules to limit it to just the preview cards or just the local uploads?
@jerry cloudflare is not metered as long as you're within their TOS. I'm paying 30 bucks a month. Might be worth a look.
@jerry if you want me to connect you with my buddy at CF just let me know and I'll make the introduction.