Re: [nznog] Multi-homing without PI space

It's cheaper until your storage requirements are several dozens of terabytes (based on current disk utilisation) and you have to pay NZ hosting prices. We're only going to be growing that disk need, too, and in the last six months the rate of growth has been measured in TB-per-month "Dobbins, Roland" wrote:

On Nov 8, 2013, at 3:11 AM, Matthew Poole wrote:

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putting *those* into someone else's DC carries significant cost,

It's generally less expensive than doing it yourself, in my experience. Not moving your gear - moving your apps and data onto someone else's gear. Right there in NZ.

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as well as making it even more vital to have full link redundancy because if our staff can't connect to those systems they can't do their work.

Home DSL/3G/DOCSIS over VPN for each staff member makes for a *lot* of link redundancy, heh.

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