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Originally Posted by DatabaseDesign
Wouldn't you achieve greater efficiency having one tightly controlled and monitored environment vs. 30 or 40?
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If you mean DC locations, perhaps, but by spreading out its servers all around the globe, Google greatly reduces, if not eliminates, the chance that a problem at any one (or two or three or ...) locations will bring the Google network down.
It's the old thing about not keeping all your eggs in one basket.