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I'd also expect internal communication to be much faster than going over the internet.
by _lex 13y ago
I'd also expect internal communication to be much faster than going over the internet.
- silasb 13y agoApparently this isn't the case: | The latency is actually the same whether you traverse the public or private network because either way it won't get routed out to the edge and back.
- beachstartup 13y agothe latency will be similar in un-congested conditions (it will stay inside the network edge) but private networks allow the switched network to broadcast less, allowing it to handle "more" traffic across switch backplanes and area networks.
- zedpm 13y agoWell, the nature of routing is such that, for communication between two VPS in a given datacenter, the traffic wouldn't really "go over the internet", but it ought to still help to have the internal traffic separated from the public side.