jeremyjarvis

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   by jeremyjarvis 16y ago

   This would need some sort of "global load balancing" prob using DNS. Zones in Brightbox are similar to Availability Zones on EC2, isolated but interconnected datacentre facilities within the same city.
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   by jeremyjarvis 16y ago

   "Offering VPSes at a single datacentre (even with an API) is, in our humble opinion, not a "cloud". There are actually very few existing "true" cloud providers - Amazon EC2 is, of course, currently the largest and most well known." -- FAQs
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   by jeremyjarvis 16y ago

   Brightbox is the first in the UK with cloud-like features such as isolated (and interconnected) Zones. EC2 eu-west datacentres are in Ireland.