I mean, why almost no one else is offering BGP ECMP, byoip, anycast routing, a sane setup system among others. It boggles my mind.
It’s a hard sell going back to geoip and shitty layer2 switching that you get everywhere else after using their services.
I feel like something that is so obvious to you is not obvious to me and it'd probably help other readers here to follow along. Thanks in advance
Also, their provisioning software is excellent. From the time you choose to deploy, it takes only about 30 to 45 seconds for your instance to start. I know AWS is faster, but AWS isn't installing a new operating system each time. as the other posters pointed out, they have a lot of features that AWS will also not let you do, like bgp with ecmp.
lastly, they tend to have newer types of instances that other providers don't that you can play around on. The cavium arm processor comes to mind, which I haven't seen on any of the major cloud providers.
maybe i'm so used to OSes abstracting things that I completely lack knowledge about what baremetal choices can do for me. this is a little scary.
What packet got right is that you get the same functionality that you could usually only get in colocation environments using high-end networking equipment.
You may want to look up on the Internet for “BGP” and “Autonomous System” to learn more.
thanks for the confirmation!