Comment by dewey
2 years ago
> They made sense in a world of dialup and low speed / high latency broadband. But there are lots of places with high speed fibre and not much latency to the peering points.
Yes, but then you need backup power, someone to replace disks / hardware if things break, proper security for compliance reasons, cooling, noise. Once you set up all these things you just invented a data center again.
I don't see how getting rid of data centers makes any sense.
You can get all of that in your own business premises with a fiber uplink. But at the point you're staffing IT personnel and managing server racks, I suppose you may as well call the location a datacenter, albeit a private one.