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I'm willing to bet your data is hosted in multiple locations based on the service you're using. I don't think it's as simple as "Oh John Smith's account is hos

• asiachick 7y ago
  Of course it is. It's called backups, and being prepared. If one data center burns down or is taken offline for other reason your data needs to be somewhere else.
  • inetknght 7y ago
    > If one data center burns down or is taken offline for other reason your data needs to be somewhere else. Somewhere else doesn't necessarily need to be "in different jurisdiction"
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    • SAI_Peregrinus 7y ago
      No, but ideally (and especially for live failover datacenters) it should be in a different wide-area synchronous grid segment[1] to prevent issues in the event of large disasters. For datacenters in the EU that means having a backup outside the continental EU, which has meant Ireland or Great Britain if they want to stay within the EU jurisdiction. With the UK leaving that means just Ireland. Other disaster recovery concerns also mean that having large geographical distance between datacenters is a good idea. This can lead to jurisdictional issues, which need to be addressed when building the system. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_grid#Wide_area_synchronous_grid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_grid#Wide_area_sync...