On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:58:35PM +0000, Peter Corlett wrote:
> Much of the UK's Internet infrastructure is concentrated in data centres and
> other hastily-erected barns in both Docklands and even more expensive parts
> of the capital, with bits of wet string trailing out to the rest of the
> country. So you can either have punitive server rental with virtually free
> bandwidth, or cheap rental out in the sticks but with eye-watering per-byte
> charges. I think this basically comes from London-centricism plus an artefact
> of BT pricing in the mid-90s making it not cost-effective for ISPs to
> build-out regional infrastructure.
I'm far more inclined to blame BT than any London-centrism. And note
that this is changing now. I think the machine I'm sending this from is
out in the sticks in York, for example, having started in London, then
moved to Manchester, and finally to York.
> > Reason VPS is in Holland is price: initially Euro 30 pa, now discounted.
> The Dutch love a bargain, but that price can't possibly be sustainable.
For a very small VPS running on over-subscribed hardware it might be.
And it's not like that would matter if you just use it for occasional
torrenting and the like. So your torrent downloads a bit slower. Big
deal.
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