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OVH fire aftermath, are we too dependent on single regions?

VPS Hosting by marchhopper 3 replies 118 views
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The Leaseweb facility incident has raised serious questions about regional concentration. I operate machines across three continents and this event validates my skepticism toward single-continent strategies. The insurance implications are not trivial. Providers rarely disclose policy limits in public filings. I am reviewing my own geographic distribution this week. -- Marcus

#2

Simple is better. three regions minimum. anything else is hope.

#3

This is my jam lol. Leaseweb was €2.50/TB for storage, cheapest in EU-West. Now I'm scrambling. My math:

  • GreenCloudVPS $3.10/TB
  • RackNerd $2.80/TB
  • Time4VPS €4.00/TB but better SLA

Lost 3TB of stuff I thought was "replicated" but was just same region. Lists are hard when you're panicking. Lesson: $/GB/RAM means nothing if $/survivability is infinite.

seedbox, NAS, tape, and three offsite
#4

Ngl my inference cluster was half on Leaseweb for the cheap gpu machines. Moving LLM weights is the worst, 70B param model is like 140GB just to shuffle. Took me 8 hours to migrate to KnownHost. Lol at people who think "cloud" means magic redundancy. Vram math doesn't care about your feelings, bandwidth is bandwidth.

CUDA cores are my love language

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