It seems a bit disingenuous but it’s common practice. Even the hyperscalers, who do have their own datacenters, include their colocation servers in the term “datacenter.” Good luck finding the actual, physical location of a server in GCP europe-west2-a (“London”). Maybe it’s in a real Google datacenter in London! Or it could be in an Equinix datacenter in Slough, one room away from AWS eu-west-1.
Cloudflare has also historically used “datacenter” to refer to their rack deployments.
All that said, for the purpose of the blog post, “building your own datacenter” is misleading.
Cloudflare has also historically used “datacenter” to refer to their rack deployments.
All that said, for the purpose of the blog post, “building your own datacenter” is misleading.