Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/23

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Subject: [Leica] Smugmug
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:59:31 +0100
References: <4B5524F8.8050400@hemenway.com> <C77B5960.7201%lug@steveunsworth.co.uk> <132ed09d1001191114h7b0b00d3ka7055e9599c1a2e0@mail.gmail.com> <7AB9E476-555A-4A1E-8ED1-880678DB0CFC@frozenlight.eu> <7ac27f4f1001230038h7173709blf23bf5a90f1c56e4@mail.gmail.com>

Smugmug is not really a global company, it is basically a California SME 
that has developed a good service for hosting photos. The SmugVault (backup 
for large quantities) is a re-sell of Amazon's cloud, but the basic Smugmug 
hosting is probably all housed in some data center in California.

Nathan

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On Jan 23, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Richard Man wrote:

> I doubt it, global companies have servers everywhere, including like
> in the middle of the ocean :-)
> 
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
> wrote:
>> I assume that my greatpix.eu site is actually hosted somewhere in the US, 
>> as Smugmug is a US company. The fact that I point an .eu domain at 
>> wajsman.smugmug.com has no influence on this.
>> 
> 
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> http://rfman.wordpress.com
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> 
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