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Re:Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624G... by qaq on Friday October 06, 2017 @04:46PM (#15420340)
Not a Softlayer customer but hard to imagine network crappier than AWS.
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Re:Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624G... by tedivm on Friday October 06, 2017 @05:39PM (#15420682)
At least with AWS you get placement groups, which can help a lot. With Softlayer we saw entirely too much packet loss on a regular basis, and they try to upsell you on things to "fix" it.
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Re:Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624G... by sitkack on Friday October 06, 2017 @08:06PM (#15421394)
default port speed was 100Mbps as of 10 months ago
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