Besides increasing reliability, I wonder to what extent small-time network operations can really prepare well against all attacks to specific business sites.
As far as I remember aD, it was founded to address 24x7 hosting and maintenance concerns. In short, I remember it being explained as a set of growing, regional, economically separate teams that combined efforts to maintain servers/services 24x7, providing near enterprise level service.
I'd like to see openacs companies create a global alliance that provides these services. But in the realm of economic warfare, can we work together in a concerted effort like this, and thereby overcome an ongoing tragedy of the commons scenario (ie no world-class openacs offerings)? What would it take to form such an alliance?
We work with hub[1], which also hosts postgres sites. If you are considering co-location, XO[2] offers a multi-points of presence network with average cross network latency of 100ms max (last I checked), which was probably a reason why they are used for fast content delivery by some leading hi-tech internet companies. Things change so fast, don't know how current this stuff is, nor how relevent it is to your situation.
1. http://www.hub.org/vServer.php
2. http://xo.com/about/network/
cheers,
Torben
