When there is a bad storm, and or when my area has lots of congestion it seems google owned sites stay fast.

  • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The term for this is colocation where multiple companies’ servers are co-located at data centers. The space is leased out by the carrier and allows for better performance and resilience during outages.

    Another related term is edge computing which shares the distributed (as opposed to centralized) topology.