Finally decommissioned last of our Tier II footprint

adam20 · 2026-05-14T00:16:55+00:00

The ticket said: "URGENT: customer reports complete data center offline, 500+ down, business critical." It was our own. Last of the Tier II fleet, a sad row of Contabo cabinets in a building where the...

Nadia59

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Joined:: Jul 2024
Posts:: 73
From:: Mexico City, Mexico

3mo ago

#11

This thread is making me grateful I just rent VPS from whoever has a Mexico City POP. Currently Vultr. "Tier" what?

pam3

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Latency Witch

Joined:: Aug 2024
Posts:: 74
From:: Melbourne, Australia

3mo ago

6 #12

Chen said:

Singapore Leaseweb? I have a box there.

Latency from Melbourne to Leaseweb Singapore: 95ms median, 118ms peak. To AWS ap-southeast-2: 12ms. The cost delta does not overcome the speed-of-light problem for interactive workloads.

HOST: mel-lgs01                    Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- ???                       100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
  2.|-- syd10.au.as4436.net          0.0%    10   14.2  15.1  13.8  18.4   1.3
  3.|-- sgp1.as4436.net              0.0%    10   96.3  97.8  94.2 118.7   7.1

Footnote: mtr run 2026-08-28, residential NBN.

100% packet loss at hop 3

tarekcai

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spaces are for websites

Joined:: Jan 2025
Posts:: 37
From:: Cairo, Egypt

3mo ago

#13

pam3 said:

Latency from Melbourne to Leaseweb Singapore: 95ms median

This is why I keep boxes in Cairo and Frankfurt. European providers think "Middle East" means Dubai. Cairo to Frankfurt is 45ms, Cairo to Dubai is 180ms. Geography is not their strong suit.

Still spaces over tabs though.

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