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by agency 1646 days ago
This is nice if you can afford to have atomic clocks in your data centers and whole infrastructure teams working on keeping your clocks in sync (read: if you are Google) but otherwise you're probably gonna have a bad time.
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I think those clocks are coming down in price but the bigger challenge is the logistics - for whatever reason shared data centers don’t run in a GPS signal from the outside that all their clients can share.
Well within the price range of smaller data centers, ~$1500 to build the open source reference card published by the open compute project: Open Time Server

http://www.opentimeserver.com/

$1500 should be nothing, even to small data centers.