Why is it that only the larger cloud providers are acceptable? What’s wrong with one of the smaller providers like Linode/Akamai? There are a lot of crappy options, but also plenty of decent ones. If you build your infrastructure over a few different providers, you’ll pay more upfront in engineering time, but you’ll get a lot more flexibility.
For something like Signal, it should be pretty easy to build this type of redundancy since data storage is minimal and sending messages probably doesn’t need to use that data storage.
It is, compared to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Here’s 2024 revenue to give an idea of scale:
Akamai - $4B, Linode itself is ~$100M
AWS - $107B
Azure - ~$75B
Google Cloud - ~$43B
The smallest on this this list has 10x the revenue of Akamai.
Here are a few other providers for reference:
Hetzner (what I use) - €367M
Digital Ocean - $692.9M
Vultr (my old host) - not public, but estimates are ~$37M
I’m arguing they could put together a solution with these smaller providers. That takes more work, but you’re rewarded with more resilience and probably lower hosting costs. Once you have two providers in your infra, it’s easier to add another. Maybe start with using them for disaster recovery, then slowly diversify the hosting portfolio.
10% the size of google is decent. If I had ten percent of a tech giant’s reach in any particular sector I would consider myself significant but I get where you ae coming from
Why is it that only the larger cloud providers are acceptable? What’s wrong with one of the smaller providers like Linode/Akamai? There are a lot of crappy options, but also plenty of decent ones. If you build your infrastructure over a few different providers, you’ll pay more upfront in engineering time, but you’ll get a lot more flexibility.
For something like Signal, it should be pretty easy to build this type of redundancy since data storage is minimal and sending messages probably doesn’t need to use that data storage.
Akamai isnt small hehe
It is, compared to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Here’s 2024 revenue to give an idea of scale:
The smallest on this this list has 10x the revenue of Akamai.
Here are a few other providers for reference:
I’m arguing they could put together a solution with these smaller providers. That takes more work, but you’re rewarded with more resilience and probably lower hosting costs. Once you have two providers in your infra, it’s easier to add another. Maybe start with using them for disaster recovery, then slowly diversify the hosting portfolio.
10% the size of google is decent. If I had ten percent of a tech giant’s reach in any particular sector I would consider myself significant but I get where you ae coming from