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The city list does look random, but it's actually the simplest cities to build out with physical servers + anycast. We _tend_ to do better than AWS on latency
by mrkurt 7y ago
The city list does look random, but it's actually the simplest cities to build out with physical servers + anycast.
We _tend_ to do better than AWS on latency to your apps, and from upstate New York you'd probably be connecting to New Jersey. I would be Virginia is quicker than Ohio for you most of the time too.
- PaulHoule 7y agoI have timed Virginia and Ohio and Ohio is 20 ms faster. I discovered this earlier when I was playing Titanfall and noticed a much lower ping to their Azure data center in Ohio. I confirmed it by setting up my own host in Azure. I was thinking of switching to Azure but pretty soon AWS opened us-east-2 and I moved my stuff there.
- mrkurt 7y agoHuh that's really interesting. I just checked one of the performance tools we use a lot and it's <3ms to connect to fly.io New Jersey from NYC. It's not the best test because datacenter-to-datacenter behaves differently than consumer internet and NYC isn't upstate New York. If you feel like testing I'm curious what you see to https://flyio-ui.fly.dev https://flyio-ui.fly.dev