> you don't run out of disk space (from logs for example)
For a social media / user-generated content application, the macro storage concerns are a lot more important than the micro ones. By this I mean, care more about overall fleet-wide capacity for product DBs and media storage, instead of caring about a single server filling up its disk with logs.
With UGC applications, product data just grows and grows, forever, never shrinking. Even if the app becomes less popular over time, the data set will still keep growing -- just more slowly than before.
Even if your database infrastructure has fully automated sharding, with bare metal hosting you still need to keep doing capacity planning and acquiring new database hardware. If no one is doing this, it's game over, there's simply nowhere to store new tweets (or new photos, or whichever infra tier runs out of hardware first...)
Staffing problems in other eng areas can exacerbate this. For example, if automated bot detection becomes inadequate, bot posting volume goes way up and takes up an increasing amount of storage space.
For a social media / user-generated content application, the macro storage concerns are a lot more important than the micro ones. By this I mean, care more about overall fleet-wide capacity for product DBs and media storage, instead of caring about a single server filling up its disk with logs.
With UGC applications, product data just grows and grows, forever, never shrinking. Even if the app becomes less popular over time, the data set will still keep growing -- just more slowly than before.
Even if your database infrastructure has fully automated sharding, with bare metal hosting you still need to keep doing capacity planning and acquiring new database hardware. If no one is doing this, it's game over, there's simply nowhere to store new tweets (or new photos, or whichever infra tier runs out of hardware first...)
Staffing problems in other eng areas can exacerbate this. For example, if automated bot detection becomes inadequate, bot posting volume goes way up and takes up an increasing amount of storage space.