~ ipinfo upvpn.app
- Anycast true
- City Chicago
- Region Illinois
- Country United States (US)
- Currency USD ($)
- Location 41.8500,-87.6500
- Organization AS40509 Fly.io, Inc.
- Postal 60666
- Timezone America/Chicago
15:21:52 $ curl https://upvpn.app/install.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Based on Tailscale: Copyright (c) 2021 Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS All rights reserved.
# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
# license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
#
# This script detects the current operating system, and installs
# upvpn on supported OS.
Just feels crazy to read about it a month ago and see it today, you know?
upvpn is not related to them.
The reason most cloud providers have overlapping datacenter locations is generally explainable by the fact that they all rent space in the same physical buildings (e.g. an Equinix datacenter), where they peer with each other and classify the building as an "internet exchange point" (IXP). These buildings tend to congregate near each other for historical or geographical reasons, like proximity to the landing terminal of an undersea cable, or inheriting a building from the old DARPA network.
It's actually quite annoying how clouds will label their region e.g. "gcp-eu-1," but it's actually just a reference to some rack space that Google rents in the same London Equinix datacenter as AWS and Azure.