• shalafi@lemmy.worldBanned
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    4 months ago

    In addition to the other answers;

    America’s deserts are tectonically stable and don’t experience natural disasters. If you want your data and/or compute running in two regions for redundancy, somewhere in the desert is a good choice for one of your DCs.

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        4 months ago

        I know. Was looking for a term to separate the two areas. Not like the San Andreas fault is stable!

        How could I have dialed that in better?