I'm curious. What would you do, host on-prem? Even if I had the hardware, as a pure software person, I have no clue how I'd even start setting up a physical location to serve data on that scale. And even if the people on the NixOS team know, it sounds like their time would be better spent working on NixOS than building & maintaining a data center (even if small). Bare metal storage services seem to be on a similar price level as lower-cost cloud services like Cloudflare or Backblaze, but I'm very interested if you happen to know a cheaper alternative!
Plus, even if you deal with the storage itself, how do you deal with serving the traffic globally? Optimally you'd want a distributed CDN, but that doesn't really sound feasible without the cloud. Would you still use a cloud CDN, or just serve directly from your own server?
Plus, even if you deal with the storage itself, how do you deal with serving the traffic globally? Optimally you'd want a distributed CDN, but that doesn't really sound feasible without the cloud. Would you still use a cloud CDN, or just serve directly from your own server?