O golpe de hospedagem na web de espaço em disco ilimitado ainda está vivo e em execução

Ainda existem muitos provedores de hospedagem na web que oferecem espaço em disco ilimitado… Mas o espaço em disco é muito caro e existe uma mídia subjacente que o armazena. É simples entender que os custos de espaço em disco são proporcionais à sua quantidade:

Quanto mais espaço em disco você usa, maiores serão seus custos.

Lógica 101

It is everyone’s dream to believe that a limited resources can (magically) become unlimited.

A successful CDN company launched such offer last month (no name will be given in this article but it is some kind of CDN with a whale). The offer was too good to be true: unlimited disk space for less than $9 per month! After signing up the fairy tale ended: it was a dedicated server with a 4TB disk. In fairness to this provider: a full refund was given when the cancelation was requested.

Now let’s examine data costs: the amount of data is not the only cost factor.

Another important factor is the ability (or not) to access this data (or move it).

Inventory basics

Data is like a heavy digital stone: the bigger it is, the least you want to move it. Amazon AWS (and other cloud companies) understood this a long time ago and created two types of data: hot data e cold data. Hot data is the data you access very frequently: like the data sitting in the disk of your own computer.

Cold data is the data that you really do not need every day.

Data fridge

It is a very well named concept: because there are different degrees of coldness. There is a difference between the data you would access once a year versus the data that you might never access again. The colder your data is, the cheaper it will be!