As we discovered earlier, practically all I/O operations in a virtualized or cloud-hosting infrastructure are now network operations. Disks and databases are rarely local, as this would prevent scaling out horizontally. There are various command-line tools that can help you discover where the API, DB, or any other server you're using is located, and how much latency is present on the connection.
While all of these commands can be run from your workstation, they are most useful when run from a server via a Secure Shell (SSH) or Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection. This way, you can check where your databases, APIs, and storage servers are, in relation to your web servers. Unfortunately, it is common for hosting ...
