Vegas is like 3ms from LA 
We've sniffed around Seattle and a few places like that but filtering becomes an issue.
I might have a solution to that soon, though.....
I think the anycast stuff is pretty cool. Again, you'd be looking at around $20/month for a redundant anycast cluster over 3 DC's with 6TB of outbound and unmetered inbound. Need filtering? It becomes a massive $25/month. Similar products are $20/month initial, $0.50/GB of outbound transit, and $xxx for 20gbit of protection. Jeeeeesus Christ.
Launching new locations is going to be a slow thing with anycast. Remember, since we're not backhauling we'd be more or less forcing money out of people every time we open a new location to have it. Backhauling isn't a terrible idea but it'd be a pain in the butt to backhaul 500mbit to another DC because a $15/year VPS customer didn't want to buy another POP.
Remember, we always work on the basis of being as fair as possible with customers. We originally thought about charging $1.00/month for an anycast IP but felt it'd be far more fair just to include it for free, especially if a customer is already commiting to at least 3 services with us. Whenever we plan things we always take into consideration if current customers will feel unloved or new ones not getting as much as the old ones. That's why you'll almost always see us push things retroactive.
As for a managed solution, maybe, but probably not under the BuyVM name.
Francisco
We've sniffed around Seattle and a few places like that but filtering becomes an issue.
I might have a solution to that soon, though.....
I think the anycast stuff is pretty cool. Again, you'd be looking at around $20/month for a redundant anycast cluster over 3 DC's with 6TB of outbound and unmetered inbound. Need filtering? It becomes a massive $25/month. Similar products are $20/month initial, $0.50/GB of outbound transit, and $xxx for 20gbit of protection. Jeeeeesus Christ.
Launching new locations is going to be a slow thing with anycast. Remember, since we're not backhauling we'd be more or less forcing money out of people every time we open a new location to have it. Backhauling isn't a terrible idea but it'd be a pain in the butt to backhaul 500mbit to another DC because a $15/year VPS customer didn't want to buy another POP.
Remember, we always work on the basis of being as fair as possible with customers. We originally thought about charging $1.00/month for an anycast IP but felt it'd be far more fair just to include it for free, especially if a customer is already commiting to at least 3 services with us. Whenever we plan things we always take into consideration if current customers will feel unloved or new ones not getting as much as the old ones. That's why you'll almost always see us push things retroactive.
As for a managed solution, maybe, but probably not under the BuyVM name.
Francisco
