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Many folks these days are deploying in the cloud, where it's difficult to deploy your own hardware. Many would see it as too costly to maintain the hardware in
by apeace 7y ago
Many folks these days are deploying in the cloud, where it's difficult to deploy your own hardware. Many would see it as too costly to maintain the hardware in a separate datacenter with a fast connection to their cloud provider.
The advantage of this is that it runs on Cloudflare's network, where your cloud provider surely has a fast connection to the nearest edge.
- wmf 7y agoIf you're in the cloud you should get time from the cloud provider, not from Cloudflare.
- makomk 7y agoThat does seem like the obvious problem with this. For example AWS apparently have GPS time sync to all their datacenters in order to provide accurate NTP time to the instances in them: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/keeping-time-with-amazon-time-sync-service/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/keeping-time-with-amazon-ti... It seems like it'd be hard to beat the connection speed and all-around performance of that, especially since there's a cross-internet trip from the third party stratum 1 servers to Cloudflare as well as the one from their servers to you.
- wbl 7y agoYou can use multiple servers with NTP for redundancy and better accuracy. One is none pretty quickly.