Comment by ThinkBeat
3 months ago
1. Is the impression they decided to use a non datacenter location to put their datacenter, If so that is not a good idea.
2. Geographical distanced backups, if the primary fails. Without this you are already in trouble. What happens if the buildings burns down?
3. Hooking up with "local" ISPs That seems ok. As long as ISP failing is easily and autoamically dealt with.
4. I am a bit confused about what happens at the edge. On the one head it seems like you have 1 datacenter, and ISPs doing routing, other places I get the impression you have compute close to the edge. Which is it?
1. No, they're using a cage inside a real data center in Ashburn VA which is basically data center city.
2. In the diagram you can see site 1 and site 2.
3. Yes, routers automatically deal with ISP failures.