And do that multiple times?

There aren’t any “gotchas” they absolutely lose money us who store more than a few TB but its worth it considering that we are in the minority.

Someone from BB posted a graph showing the distribution of data usage over all users and the VAST majority are under 1-2 TB

Restoring data is free from backblaze.

I use a wildcard domain (with simplelogin which makes it easier to use). All the emails are sent to my normal email and it works great.

I have never heard of spammers spamming an entire domain like that. They are not human operated anyways.

A switched network does come with the disadvantage of needing switches and since you need high bandwidth and optimally a Ceph storage network completely physically separated from everything else it can be quite an expense. It’s very neat though 😀

If you do want to use Ceph you could probably use NICs with multiple ports per NIC.

Additionally you could use switches instead of a fully mesh system.

Full mesh is pretty neat but gets overwhelming very quickly if you have many nodes. With switching you only need two ports per node for your Ceph network.

Why so many accounts and especially credit cards?