Please update the use cases based on DisQus comments:
I just discovered after some research that Linode should work for on-premise audio-video chat and conferencing. Some software needs a real-time clock for good performance.
Linode uses KVM, which supports a paravirtualized clock:
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/kvm-pvclock/
Maybe the Linode docs could be extended to cover this growing use case. I hear that Zoom is so busy with the pandemic lockdowns, they are just hanging up on many customers!
Please update the use cases based on DisQus comments:
I just discovered after some research that Linode should work for on-premise audio-video chat and conferencing. Some software needs a real-time clock for good performance.
Linode uses KVM, which supports a paravirtualized clock:
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/kvm-pvclock/
Maybe the Linode docs could be extended to cover this growing use case. I hear that Zoom is so busy with the pandemic lockdowns, they are just hanging up on many customers!