I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.
I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.
Scalable shared storage. Scalable database, web, and cache servers. Using AWS terminology, it’s elastic. The Multi-zone storage my own company uses, for example, is practically infinite and scales automatically. Cloud data centers are huge.