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Which is to say, each of our five[1] regional POPs have a single connection provided through a dumb switch one hop from he.net[2].
They have no interconnection or dependencies to one another.
No routers, no firewalls, no balancing, no failover. When rsync.net fails, it's a very, very boring failure.
We've had zero network outages in the last 60 months or so.
[1] Fremont, San Diego, Denver, Zurich, Hong Kong
[2] init7 in Zurich ...
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Which is to say, each of our five[1] regional POPs have a single connection provided through a dumb switch one hop from he.net[2].
They have no interconnection or dependencies to one another.
No routers, no firewalls, no balancing, no failover. When rsync.net fails, it's a very, very boring failure.
We've had zero network outages in the last 60 months or so.
[1] Fremont, San Diego, Denver, Zurich, Hong Kong
[2] init7 in Zurich ...