Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground?

Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by hinkley on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:10PM (#24975677)

I have a small app I run just fine in Digital Ocean, but at work we care about not just geographical redundancy but geographical load balancing. Having user traffic cross the country puts you at a deficit for response times, and if that matters to your company, having servers close to clusters of users is a good thing.

I can do that a little bit with DO. What are my options with OVH? I see them bragging about having the biggest data center, as if I am supposed to think that's a good idea instead of a terrible one.

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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by asymptotically3 on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:40AM (#24980600)

>I can do that a little bit with DO. What are my options with OVH?

OVH have datacentres in multiple countries just like DO.

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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by hinkley on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @01:24PM (#24982400)

There are parts of the US that are still pretty far from the nearest DO data center. If I go AWS I don't have that problem.

I should clarify that I am playing devil's advocate here. I've never been pro-Amazon (although I slipped for a bit there, I'm feeling much better again), they just have answers for some questions that I don't.

Or at least, not until multi-cloud is on everyone's radar. The combined coverage map of any two AWS competitors generally looks more competitive, but we collectively have to 'work' on the people who think that would be too hard.

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