Varun Varma wrote:
No co-loc provider at one place is going to peer with all possible ISPs and there are going to be broken ISPs on the client side, which peer better with one ISP than another.
Please. Right now, it'd take a lot more than just just one peer going down for your server to lose all possible routes to the internet at a location.
The geographically etc is not really for network wise redundancy, at least on the same continent. It's more for stuff like (for example) the generator fire at XO that took out services for six or seven hours, or the recent hurricane induced blackouts that took out power in the east coast for several hours.
If one were to compare email to telephones [which they are replacing, at least in part, for communication], then having backup MXs is like having
Please dont compare smtp or other internet protocols to telephones.
Analogies work that way - the example is taken from a different domain to make accentuate the point being made.
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