castalla wrote: > Several reports have said 'It's the storm in the USA' - if so, then why > are the EU servers down? It's a helluva long way from the hurricane > region?
The EU servers might be hosted in the US. If so, they would be on the east coast, because that is where the transatlantic fibre capacity lands. > No Americans have appeared shouting about loss of services. It could be that most of the US is served from non-east coast locations, or it could be that the servers are OK, but the connectivity to Europe is affected. People tend to forget that amidst all the virtualness and cloudiness, the bits still need to travel in actual, physical cables under the sea. 'Here is a nice animation courtesy of Renesys' (http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/10/hurricane-sandy-outage-animati.shtml) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97038 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
