[notaddicted]

For "finding datacenters", traceroute is useful. You can just pick some websites and see where they host. For example, is seems that pinboard.in is hosted at http://he.net/colocation.html, Fremont 2, or at least that is where I am being routed.

[dmourati]

HE's FMT2 is a hellhole of a "data center" if ever there was one.

[theatrus2]

As someone who has equipment there, I agree. Its not a datacenter. However the pricing is not bad, so its a real get what you pay for.

[timr]

He did say that he believes it's better to host in two cheap places than one expensive one....

Aside: back in the early days, a lot of YC startups hosted at HE. I think it was one of the first JTV colos, actually.

[dmourati]

Disagree. Twice the headache. Put all your eggs in one basket then watch that basket. Get bigger, repeat. I'd go from 2 to 3 faster than 1 to 2.

[timr]

I don't think he was making an argument for ease of maintenance, but rather, reliability per dollar. Even if you've got two crappy datacenters, you're at least redundantly crappy.

[Nrsolis]

That only works if you value sysadmin time at $0/hr.

[beachstartup]

this is only useful for clients who aren't running their own switches & bgp. if they are running their own network, they can peer with ISPs that don't have physical locations in their dns names. this is a thing you can request, for obvious reasons.