I was actually looking into this the other day - latency from Japan to Virginia is over 200ms and then 32ms to grab the actual HTML the page. I reduced my SSL

I was actually looking into this the other day - latency from Japan to Virginia is over 200ms and then 32ms to grab the actual HTML the page. I reduced my SSL certificate from 4096 bits and it's definitely helped (latency with SSL was crazy, over 500ms). Even so, need to think at some point about a datacenter distributed code base :-/