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and if you have more than one? or more than one dc? somebody needs to connect it, or you will need a VPN. it's not that easy without Clouds if you need connecte
by merb 12y ago
and if you have more than one? or more than one dc?
somebody needs to connect it, or you will need a VPN.
it's not that easy without Clouds if you need connected servers.
We switched to AWS since connecting servers in a dc isn't as cheap as people think of.
- Negitivefrags 12y agoThis article was talking about renting servers from Softlayer. All servers on your account in Softlayer have a private VLAN that connects them, even between data centers. Private networks for your servers are a feature of many server hosts.
- kovyrin 12y agoWe get free inter-DC connectivity for free with Softlayer. There really is no difference for us between connecting to a server within a DC or between datacenters (aside from added latency, of cource) – the same private address space, the same access rules (we see all of our machines in a private backend network from any datacenter).
- nasalgoat 12y agoEvery enterprise router in existence has built-in tunnel support. Even the open source ones like PFSense.
- corford 12y agoI host all my stuff with Hetzner (who are at the cheap end of the market compared to Softlayer) and even they provide pre-configured VLANS and private switches. For intra-DC you can just setup some redundant openvpn links or pay the dc to configure a hardware tunnel between both sites.