petedoyle

I don't yet own a MacBook Pro because I'm also a multi (triple) monitor guy. Supposedly Thunderbolt allows for external PCI-Express devices (i.e. graphics cards). I'm keeping a close eye on the Sonnetech Echo Express (not out yet), hoping triple monitors off a MBP will be possible soon.

Very interesting having the DBs hosted in another datacenter. I've always assumed it'd add too much latency, but it looks like that's not the case.

Here's a traceroute between an EC2 instance in us-east-1a and rackspace.com (which resolved to one of their VA datacenters): http://pastebin.com/RF5VrTic

Sub 2ms. It also looks like the us-east-1a is peered directly with whichever rackspace datacenter served the request.