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Thinking Differently… An update on our Mac Mini Routers at LINX
We have been quiet for a while on the subject of the mac minis we installed into LINX at Telehouse several months ago…
You may remember the previous article, basically we are using a pair of Mac Mini computers to connect our hosting platform to the LINX Internet exchange in London.
We are getting quicker
Great news we have after a lot of hard work behind the scenes we have managed to install a lot of our equipment in the Bunker, configure it all and now start to announce it across LINX via our routers in Telehouse North. To celebrate we have coded a small peering database and sent an email to all the LINX members to see if we can peer.
The response so far has been overwhelmingly positive which makes me really glad we joined LINX in the first place. At the rate we are going we may have over 100 sessions live tomorrow with a following wind and that would be great progress.
This means our sites should be quicker to load on all the providers who connect to us directly and we will be able to spider all the web sites we are starting to crawl at a lower cost which is great news on both counts.