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kryptisktyesterday at 1:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

If you are a bank or a bookmaker or similar you may well want to have total control of physical access to the machines. I know one bookmaker I worked with had their own mini-datacenter, mainly because of physical security.


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tomcamyesterday at 1:57 PM

I am pretty forward-thinking but even when I started writing my first web server 30+ years ago I didn’t foresee the day when the phrase “my bookie’s datacenter” might cross my lips.

mgaunardyesterday at 5:06 PM

Most trading venues are in Equinix data centers.