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For my niche use case, I'd love to see this somewhere in the middle of the US so I can have a single instance with similar ping to both coasts.
by Scramblejams 7y ago
For my niche use case, I'd love to see this somewhere in the middle of the US so I can have a single instance with similar ping to both coasts.
- luhn 7y agoTry us-east-2, it's located in Ohio.
- yellowapple 7y agocanada-central-1 is also close-ish.
- deftnerd 7y agoOddly enough, ca-central-1 is in Montreal... even further east than their Ohio and Virginia data centers. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/ Scroll down to AWS Global Infrastructure Map
- mcbain 7y agoIt seems Central Canada is more philosophical than Geographical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Canada
- Scramblejams 7y agoNope, way too far to the east for what I want.
- jonas21 7y agoI also think of Ohio as being in the middle of the country, so I was surprised to find out that Columbus (where us-east-2 is located) is only about 300 miles from Washington DC, but over 2000 miles from San Francisco.
- asdff 7y agoMost of Ohio is a 6 hour drive from Chicago and 8 hours from NYC. People call it the mid west, but really it's the mid east.
- all_blue_chucks 7y agoThe "west" comes from the perspective of the 13 original colonies. Everything else was called "the west" at one point.
- abrowne 7y agoMinneapolis was in the "northwest" until the thirties or later.
- Scramblejams 7y agoNope, way too far to the east for what I want.
- AdamN 7y agoSeems like Kansas City and Salt Lake City are the major nodes in the middle of the country? I like this Internet2 map because it's simple: https://noc.net.internet2.edu/ https://noc.net.internet2.edu/ Which would you choose?
- Scramblejams 7y agoKansas City would be lovely. I rent a server there, but not from AWS. Denver would probably be good too.
- NDizzle 7y agoIt's not AWS, but you can look at https://www.webhostingtalk.com/ https://www.webhostingtalk.com/ to find dedicated servers in different regions. I have an elasticsearch cluster node in Kanasas City, for example. ( Joe's Datacenter: https://joesdatacenter.com/ https://joesdatacenter.com/ )
- rsync 7y ago"For my niche use case, I'd love to see this somewhere in the middle of the US so I can have a single instance with similar ping to both coasts." That is why our primary location is in Denver. No earthquakes, no terrorism, no floods. rsync.net customers all over California happily keep their backups in boring old Denver ... (with a one hop route into the he.net core in Fremont ...)