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The primary US location, in San Diego[1], gives us a managed, blended bandwidth product which is, in fact, quintuple homed and has been since we moved in (2001)
by rsync 6y ago
The primary US location, in San Diego[1], gives us a managed, blended bandwidth product which is, in fact, quintuple homed and has been since we moved in (2001).
So we have a dumb switch in our rack, but they have routers.
In 2021 that's a weird bandwidth product and a weird setup but in 2001 it was "normal" and we just stay with that setup out of inertia (and the fact that we can't connect to he.net in San Diego).
A similar setup exists for us in Zurich with init7.
However, you are correct and we need to edit that FAQ language: our geo-redundant site in Fremont does not work that way.
(I will note that it has been 11 years since we put that location in place (he.net in Fremont) and it has zero minutes of downtime)
A tremendous amount of complexity and attack surface are eschewed by living with that setup and we're always looking for new ways to make that tradeoff.
[1] Castle Acess datacenter on Aero drive. Is now a KIO managed datacenter.
- bombcar 6y agoGood old Castle Access - and they really seem to take the “Castle” part pretty seriously. We were there at a similar time - I probably saw the rsync.net servers.