Re: Colo in Africa

[Akshay Kumar via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

Thanks for chiming in but his reason for can't be cloud was, "We use the
full capacity of each server, all the time." That ain't good reason.

They do have baremetal servers like I pointed out. We use them when for
cases where we need access to perf counters.

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:10 PM Bryan Fields <Bryan () bryanfields net> wrote:

> On 7/16/19 10:55 AM, Akshay Kumar via NANOG wrote:
> > The 2nd requirement seems artificial. The new hypervisors have come a
> long
> > way and the overhead is minimal. Also you can run bare metal instances in
> > AWS if you really need them with 100Gbps.
>
> Well the man wants bare metal, and while there's arguments for and against
> it,
> it's what he wants to buy :)
>
> That said, I'm one of those guys that likes owing my own hypervisor, don't
> need to worry about the side channel/memory/OOO execution attacks from
> rogue
> VM's if it's only my VM's on it.  Plus AWS ain't cheap either.
>
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