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
OVH fire aftermath, are we too dependent on single regions?
Simple is better. three regions minimum. anything else is hope.
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
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