Yes and no. They don't use the kind of co-location services you might be thinking about. Co-location targets the corporate world. Corporate world loves it to just hand off the servers and have it run for them. But if…
None of them does, for most of their locations. Owning real estate simply isn‘t their main business purpose and has many downsides, especially in matters of scalability. The main pro reason for owning them is cost.…
Lucky you, somebody already did that for you. It‘s called DNS. :P On a more serious node: IPv6 can be short and if used right they are actually short. Unfortunately, people continue not to care about relearning their…
Yes and no. They don't use the kind of co-location services you might be thinking about. Co-location targets the corporate world. Corporate world loves it to just hand off the servers and have it run for them. But if…
None of them does, for most of their locations. Owning real estate simply isn‘t their main business purpose and has many downsides, especially in matters of scalability. The main pro reason for owning them is cost.…
Lucky you, somebody already did that for you. It‘s called DNS. :P On a more serious node: IPv6 can be short and if used right they are actually short. Unfortunately, people continue not to care about relearning their…