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by rsync 2438 days ago
We keep all of those to an absolute minimum and avoid as much complexity in our infrastructure as possible.

Which is to say, each of our five[1] regional POPs have a single connection provided through a dumb switch one hop from he.net[2].

They have no interconnection or dependencies to one another.

No routers, no firewalls, no balancing, no failover. When rsync.net fails, it's a very, very boring failure.

We've had zero network outages in the last 60 months or so.

[1] Fremont, San Diego, Denver, Zurich, Hong Kong

[2] init7 in Zurich ...