On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Rick Jones <rick.jon...@hp.com> wrote: > On 06/24/2014 12:45 PM, Dave Taht wrote: >> >> In an age where you have, say, gbit fiber to your business, it makes quite >> a lot of sense from a security and maintenence perspective >> to be hosting your own data and servers on your own darn premise, not >> elsewhere. > > > Perhaps, but where does having gigabit fibre to a business imply the > business has the space, power, and cooling to host all the servers it might > need/wish to have?
I didn't say there aren't compelling reasons also to co-locate in a data center, but for many uses today, being able to host a basic website, some service, email, etc at your own location, is perfectly doable, and possibly preferable to co-locating places where things like this are happening: http://fish2.com/ipmi/ or this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A > > >> I am glad gfiber exists to put a scare into certain monopolists, but >> even then I'd be tons happier if municipalities treated basic wired >> connectivity as we do roads. One of the great "Secrets" of silicon >> valley is it got wired for fiber early, through the vision and >> foresight of people like Brian Reid and everybody got easy access. > > > That must be a really well-kept secret as I am aware of no fibre running to > my house in Sunnyvale :) The fiber loop around palo alto has quite the inspiring story behind it. Maybe brian will write it down one day, or already has. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist) > rick jones > speaking for myself alone -- Dave Täht NSFW: https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/russell_0296_indecent.article _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat