GoGrid’s parent company was SAS70 Type II certified recently which covered all products related to it, including GoGrid. Cloud Storage is a new feature that I’m not sure was part of the certification process or not. Regardless, when we go through our next re-certification, we make all attempts to ensure compliance across the board.

-Michael

This type of solution is exactly were looking for!

GoGrid’s Cloud Storage will be available in the 1st half of December. Don’t get anxious! It’s coming.

-Michael

You will be able to access your Cloud Storage via RSYNC, FTP, SAMBA, NFS (version 4 only) or SCP to transfer data. This storage cannot be partitioned and it is not recommended for databases.

The Cloud Storage clusters are heavily RAID’ed, and our disaster recovery plan can restore a backup to within 24 hours of an incident.

As far as Mosso and MT implementations of grid-based storage, I wouldn’t know that answer to that question; we’re not active users of their services

To distribute a LAMP architecture, it should be as easy as instantiating several LAMP-enabled server images running in a clustered fashion with a back-end DB. Load balance your front-end servers for equal traffic distribution. You can then write some custom scripts to push and pull data from Cloud Storage to your servers using any of the transfer protocols mentioned above.

@Bo Blangstrup,

That’s a good suggestion and I will send this to our Product Management Team. You can also use a Windows 2003 or 2008 database server with MSSQL on GoGrid today.

What RAID configuration does this storage solution use under the covers? When mounting on Linux what client do we use? Is this just NFS storage? I would assume in this case we could mount our DBs to it however they would need to use separate partitions (there are no shared locks in standard NFS).

How are you insuring overall GGCS performance across customers? Will the GGCS become the new shared choke point on GoGrid. Will this SAN have the same problems as Mosso/MT implementations? What measures have been put in place to avoid that? Are customers partitioned across physical hardware? Is the GGCS implemented on a grid based file system or something more traditional?

I know these are a lot of questions, but these types of storage systems can often be the source of huge failures and broken SLAs. Also realize that the lack of this type of service is the only thing stopping me from giving GoGrid a try

A distributed LAMP architectural guide integrating the new storage grid would be great. From provisioning the nodes to what packages to install. How do we setup something so that at the end of the day we ftp PHPfiles up to our cluster and hit go?

Great suggestion on the “Backup+”. We are always looking at ways to extend the functionality of GoGrid to provide even more useful features. I will be sure that our Product Management group sees this.

Thanks,
Michael

On that note, whilst I can appreciate the complexities of backups, would you guys perhaps consider offering a “Backup+” plan that offers backups to within the last hour, say? This is something that I’d definitely pay extra for. Perhaps with this in mind, it might be possible to add extra storage nodes for backup purposes that would be independent at the hardware level, thus offering an extra layer? Naturally, for an extra price

Anyway, thanks for keeping us updated,

Tom.