Left of the Twitter icon there's this globe thingy that says North Central US. What is it?
- Is Channel 9 preparing to launch localized versions of the site?
- Or is it to show which datacenter served the content to me?
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ZippyV
Fired Up
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DCMonkey
What?!?
@ZippyV:Well, the class of the tooltip is "datacenter rounded", so ...
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figuerres
???
Yeah i saw that the other day also ... i think it's the data center name / location.
it says north central on my copy so i am thinking like North west, centeral eastern etc...
oh btw i am in tampa fl so where is "south east" ?? they should be serving me from tampa or atlanta or virginia if they have a node / dc in that part of the us.
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I was just about to ask that then I saw this post. It says North Central US for me. I'm in Atlantic Canada.
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Duncanma
"yeah that's awful close, but that's not why I'm so hard done by"
@dentaku: It isn't showing where you are, it is showing where we are
It is the data center that channel 9 is running in, we've recently 'gone global' and are running instances in three different places including the North Central US, Northern Europe and East Asia.
So, for anyone in North America you'd probably see North Central US, but someone in the UK should see 'Northern Europe' and someone in Taipei should see 'East Asia'. The goal is to reduce latency for indviduals outside of North America, and hopefully provide a better experience in those areas.
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Those are Azure datacenter names. I guess they finally moved C9 over to Azure.
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Duncanma
"yeah that's awful close, but that's not why I'm so hard done by"
@cbae:finally? We've been in Azure since September 2010, but we were running out of only a single data center. Videos have been served from a CDN with world wide nodes for over 5 years though.
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ZippyV
Fired Up
@Duncanma: I'm from Belgium and I'm not seeing Europe.
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Duncanma
"yeah that's awful close, but that's not why I'm so hard done by"
@ZippyV: well, that's odd. you could try doing a ping/trace to http://ne.channel9.msdn.com/ vs. http://channel9.msdn.com and see if you are getting better performance to the US than to the Northern Europe data center.
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blowdart
Peek-a-boo
44 minutes ago,ZippyV wrote
@Duncanma: I'm from Belgium and I'm not seeing Europe.
That's because Belgium isn't a real country
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Zeus
Why is the caption missing??
Iceland > Northern Europe
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figuerres
???
1 hour ago,ZippyV wrote
@Duncanma: I'm from Belgium and I'm not seeing Europe.
perhaps some travel is in order ?
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W3bbo
Work hard; increase production; prevent accidents, and be happy.
2 hours ago,ZippyV wrote
@Duncanma: I'm from Belgium and I'm not seeing Europe.
UK user here, and I'm seeing "North Central US".
If you've gone totally-cloud, I'm curious: how do you solve database atomicity?
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blowdart
Peek-a-boo
Oh well done sir, well done!
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Ian2
In geeks we trust ...
Blighty->Northern Europe
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Sven Groot
Don't worry... I'm a doctor.
It says "Northern Europe" for me, and I'm in Japan. This actually makes the site slower for me because connections to Europe are even worse than connections to the US from here.
EDIT: Even more bizarre is that if I ping channel9.msdn.com it resolves to ch9eastasia.cloudapp.net. I can't ping any of them, by the way, they all just give "request timed out".
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mawcc
Make it so
Not sure if this is related to this "gone global" change, but C9 site performance has been very bad for me in the last couple of days. Videos are OK, but forum pages often either won't load on first try or take several seconds. Reply and Quote also didn't work (at least today). I'm on "Nothern Europe".
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Sven Groot
Don't worry... I'm a doctor.
I've inexplicably switched to East Asia now. Not that it makes any difference; the site is as slow as always.
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