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		NorwegianDude 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit When using colocation, nothing is stopping people from storing the database data externally from the server running the database like some cloud services do. But doing so, either in cloud or not, does have a serious downside: greatly increased latency.

Axsuul 10 months ago [–]

Kind of defeats the purpose of colocation if you're not also running the database on your own server.

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