Originally Posted by borked

urghm...

http://weathermap.ovh.net/

I think you'll find they have DCs in 11 countries in europe... If you're worried about their Global Crossing hop in Paris, rest assured it's redundant with London, which is why Google hosts their main euro infrastructure there:

http://weathermap.ovh.net/backbone

believe it or not, that tiny rack on the left labelled Google, is actually their switch (or most probably many switches) that links the Goog into Europe.... try their traceroute and you will hit one of those switches in that diagram (at least on the main weathermap page).

What other ISP gives you live 10-min updates on their infrastructure??