Very interesting having the DBs hosted in another datacenter. I've always assumed it'd add too much latency, but it looks like that's not the case. Here's a t

Very interesting having the DBs hosted in another datacenter. I've always assumed it'd add too much latency, but it looks like that's not the case. Here's a traceroute between an EC2 instance in us-east-1a and rackspace.com (which resolved to one of their VA datacenters): http://pastebin.com/RF5VrTic http://pastebin.com/RF5VrTic Sub 2ms. It also looks like the us-east-1a is peered directly with whichever rackspace datacenter served the request.