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Are you suggesting hosting a web app in the USA and its database in Europe makes no difference? There's also the problem of bandwidth (if you can't cache data

Are you suggesting hosting a web app in the USA and its database in Europe makes no difference? There's also the problem of bandwidth (if you can't cache data locally).

jarek 11y ago
No, but I would suggest that it's not a dealbreaker. Again, bandwidth pales in comparison to megabytes of Javascript and images getting pushed all over the place. On my nearly-blank test account loading Facebook.com fetches ~4 MB, including ~3 MB of Javascript with instructive names like https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v2/y0/r/64jGxSfxJ36.js https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v2/y0/r/64jGxSfxJ36.js and https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v2/yp/r/K6ojr4ngQRr.js https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v2/yp/r/K6ojr4ngQRr.js In face of that, suggesting having to store some data 0.05 s away is problematic is a bit of a waffle