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qaq on Oct 6, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs a...

Not a Softlayer customer but hard to imagine network crappier than AWS.

tedivm on Oct 6, 2017 [–]

At least with AWS you get placement groups, which can help a lot. With Softlayer we saw entirely too much packet loss on a regular basis, and they try to upsell you on things to "fix" it.

sitkack on Oct 7, 2017 | [–]

default port speed was 100Mbps as of 10 months ago

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