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From Brazil the fire did not change much for me. I was already using Miami colocation because routing to Europe is terrible. OVH Beauharnois is closer but still 140ms.

What changed is I stopped believing "same continent" means "safe pair." Now I mirror to Miami and São Paulo. Two providers, two pow...

Same energy from Rio. I did 3 AWS certs, still on G Suite support for local clients. The trick here is nobody cares about cloud certs if you don't have the cloud job first. Catch-22. I'm pivoting to Fortinet because the firewall market here is hot and the c...

Did not know that was a RAM issue, thought it was just latency. Thanks.

This. I see it on my boxes too, comes back after every cumulative update. Microsoft insists.

Disabling defender on a gateway box feels wrong tho

From Brazil OVHcloud's anycast hits Beauharnois which is fine latency-wise. Used to get routed to France sometimes though, that was rough.

Rio. I tried RackNerd once, routing to Brazil was bad. Moved to Contabo Sao Paulo... wait, they don't have Sao Paulo. I use their US east and accept the ping. At least Contabo provision fast.

This thread is fascinating but I feel like I am reading about another planet.

In Brazil the cheapest colo I can find is about R$2,500 for a quarter rack, which is roughly $450 USD. And that is with questionable power and no remote hands. For that money I could fly to Buffalo, rack a server, and fly...