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haha. Loads of Laughter right there.
I think their mentality is that because they have such high turnover rates (I mean they basically advertised it in a sense that you can only run it a month at a time if you want) they don't feel that the nodes in each location are "at max capacity"
Taronyu
New Member
I think there is a higher chance that New York gets bombed than Amsterdam gets flooded.
Personally I think they will do it eventually just to reduce the overhead of running different systems, customers asking to enable unsupported network features via support ticket, etc.
They will probably do it once they settle on an infrastructure and stop producing new features (e.g IPv6) at the rate they are currently.
Just my 2c, I couldn't care either way - I am happy in AMS2.
They will probably do it once they settle on an infrastructure and stop producing new features (e.g IPv6) at the rate they are currently.
Just my 2c, I couldn't care either way - I am happy in AMS2.
Well, NYC got flooded by some hurricane last year... Ok, at least some data centers were flooded at the basement level and were left without generators or without fuel for the generators.
What do you think would happen if a similar hurricane hit Amsterdam? And with the weather changes lately... who knows.
Taronyu
New Member
It will be 1 big disaster, true, because Amsterdam isn't prepared for it because we don't get them. (yet)
But a hurricane and a flood is something totally different. The Dutch are one of the best dam makers in the world, so Amsterdam getting flooded is unlikely. (not impossible tough)
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Aldryic C'boas
The Pony
As someone that has lived in Louisiana for some time and ridden out several hurricanes now, I call BS on that statement >_>
I can't think of any landed hurricane that didn't bring disastrous flooding in its wake. If you did happen to get a hurricane, you'll quickly find that dams aren't that great when they start trapping in the excess water the storm brought with it.
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Taronyu
New Member
As someone that has lived in the Netherlands for some time we never had a flood that included a hurricane. I'm not saying it will never happen but I think it is highly unlikely.
However we are going offtopic here,
The expansion from these guy's is amazing. I love reading there PR releases!
I would too like to see something closer to the UK as well.
I would too like to see something closer to the UK as well.
Aldryic C'boas
The Pony
Floods don't include hurricanes - hurricanes include floods 
Think of it less as the type of flooding you're familiar with, and more that the hurricane is pushing an ungodly amount of water inland as it comes to shore, as well as dumping an equivalent amount as precipitation. But, like you said, you're in NL and haven't experienced a hurricane there, and I'm in LA and haven't been to the Netherlands; so we're pretty much both just speculating :3
Think of it less as the type of flooding you're familiar with, and more that the hurricane is pushing an ungodly amount of water inland as it comes to shore, as well as dumping an equivalent amount as precipitation. But, like you said, you're in NL and haven't experienced a hurricane there, and I'm in LA and haven't been to the Netherlands; so we're pretty much both just speculating :3
Didn't they launch a London location or am I mental?
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if some of their roll outs were in locations that were way too expensive so they roll these new ones and simply depool the older locations over time to phase them out. Since their whole business model is 'quickly spin up & down VMs in a matter of seconds', technically a location will clear out pretty quick.
I can't see them wanting to stick around in downtown NYC given Google has bumped prices on renewals/simply not renewed contracts.
I linked this back when we migrated to Jersey and I think (the first 10 seconds) it fits well here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxirs7VGrGU
They might keep some of their stuff so they can keep the 'Made in NYC' rep/tag line but yeah.
Francisco
Taronyu
New Member
When people say 'floods' to me I'm not thinking about a hurricane, I think you are.Floods don't include hurricanes - hurricanes include floods
Think of it less as the type of flooding you're familiar with, and more that the hurricane is pushing an ungodly amount of water inland as it comes to shore, as well as dumping an equivalent amount as precipitation. But, like you said, you're in NL and haven't experienced a hurricane there, and I'm in LA and haven't been to the Netherlands; so we're pretty much both just speculating :3
Anyways, lets just say it both sucks when it happens haha
If they did I completely missed this!
drmike
100% Tier-1 Gogent
Expansion is lighting up new rackspace, not really hard... They have vulture capital money to burn - lots of it. Pretty easy to launch new DCs and locations quarterly, skids accomplish such rollouts with allowance money per se.
DO is stagnating sort of. I expected more / new features by now with DO. I like the concept, but not the investors and their stances on other things, which could lead to valid issues with an outfit like DO. [i need to read all of DO's policy crud for account holders / customers].
As far as DO staying in NYC proper, I fail to see the benefit really outside of ego stroking. It's not like they are targetting any Wall Street type business. The extra milliseconds being in Jersey or a giant piece of many states nearby really isn't much to add to things. Three NYC locations they've done, meh.
And the Terminal space DO is supposedly in and Google bought, it's a many tenant building. Huge. UNsure if Google is directly dealing with DO. Very likely they are not [hoping not since that's an icky sort of oddness perhaps longer term].
Dylan
Active Member
Oh, they get to use that because their offices are in New York. Their first (NYC1) datacenter isn't in NY proper, either, but North Bergen, NJ (Equinix NY7).
DO's with Telx there.
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No need to speculate, the additional physical locations is because the old locations ran out of rack space and we can't expand them to the size needed. Don't read that wrong, our space isn't full, their space is. We expand out existing locations as space becomes available in each location.
And yes we do have a datacenter just outside London if you missed it.
And yes we do have a datacenter just outside London if you missed it.
I'm assuming you're working for DO?