Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between

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Ever Wondered How Your Traffic Arrived at this Blog?

 

if you’re not in the same country as the wordpress.com server farms, chances are your HTTP request arrived here courtesy of one of these undersea fibre optic cables… fascinating stuff, you sometimes forget about the complicated (and expensive!) physical infrastructure that underpins your browsing on t’internet!

More info on how this works here courtesy of Wikipedia