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I've looked at this. Easily the best deal in town. A few notes for people considering it: - It's IP transit and a DC from HE, which means it's possibly not BGP
by kyledrake 10y ago
I've looked at this. Easily the best deal in town. A few notes for people considering it:
- It's IP transit and a DC from HE, which means it's possibly not BGP peering through other transit providers? If this is true, if HE's network fails, so does your server's internet connection. Typically you want to be multi-homed to ensure redundancy, unless you're doing something like an Anycast CDN and you don't care if it craps out for a few hours.
- HE is the cheapest transit for reasons. It may not be a big deal for what you're doing, but be aware of the differences https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5348624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5348624
- They only provide a 15A circuit (likely only 80% usable) for a 42U rack, which is pretty ridiculous. You'll blow through that pretty quickly if you're using dual Xeon servers. It's cheaper under their pricing to get a second 42U rack than it is to get the proper amount of power needed for a full cabinet.
- If you're doing Anycast, be aware that HE doesn't provide any BGP communities except blackholing, which could make it hard to tune your network.
(If any of this sounds annoying to deal with and think about, you know exactly why I'd prefer that the cloud providers had better BW costs so I could not have to do this anymore. Again, if the business model works with GCS, congratulations, use it.)
- Veratyr 10y ago> It's IP transit and a DC from HE, which means it's possibly not BGP peering through other transit providers? The gigabit transit that comes with the cabinet is HE-only, yep. You can however buy transit and an interconnect from any other carrier in the datacenter (there are quite a few in FMT2 at least). > They only provide a 15A circuit for a 42U rack, which is pretty ridiculous. Yeah, it's pretty shitty. I ended up going with Xeon D for the power efficiency. Works pretty well.