Ang walang limitasyong disk space web hosting scam ay buhay at tumatakbo pa rin

Mayroon pa ring maraming mga webhosting provider sa labas na nag-aalok ng walang limitasyong espasyo sa disk… Ngunit ang espasyo sa disk ay napakamahal at mayroong pinagbabatayan na media na nag-iimbak nito. Madaling maunawaan na ang mga gastos sa espasyo sa disk ay proprosyonal sa halaga nito:

The more disk space you use, mas mataas ang iyong mga gastos.

Lohika 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 kada buwan! 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 at 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!