Right, here is the summary:
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And then there's Facebook-done-right. Have you priced up the data centre space, hardware, bandwidth, power requirements for that? It might be in the region of £5k a year, but it might also be significantly less.
I'm saying it's not possible and that I can spend your budget 20 fold on a small, mediocre system.
As for pictures, they have to go somewhere. It's not really a Facebook alternative if you leave out that whole bit.
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Why on earth would I buy an overpriced black box and create a single point of failure!? That's crazy. If I needed to go down the path of a centralised database, I'd use something built from the ground up to be scalable and redundant.
Yeah, I'm not going to get into SAN's. I showed you a cheap one (Which can do multi-location by the way). You need expensive ones
:)EDITED: 14 Oct 2011 14:59 by PILOTDAN