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What about my customers in Europe that will have worse latency than both US users? What if my website is for my business and I only expect UK users to visit?
by jonathantf2 5y ago
What about my customers in Europe that will have worse latency than both US users?
What if my website is for my business and I only expect UK users to visit?
- bullen 5y agoYou need one server in each region, but centrally in each region. In europe there are maybe 20 actors for each of the many central countries (Germany, Belgium and Switzerland)... in the US there are only 2 (that I could find that allows me to remotely get a VPS): GCP in Omaha and IONOS in Kansas City!!! AWS only has regions on the coasts! You also only use these low latency "edge" servers for real-time (encrypted if you have private data) and keep the database and patch data on your own physical servers as they are not latency sensitive! Clouds have very expensive networking and disk costs compared to buying hardware and hosting it on your home fiber! But you cannot live on all 3 major continents (EU, US, and Asia)!!! Eventually people will exchange VPS on their home fiber, if you live in central US or Asia and want to exchange a VPS (preferably redundant 2x locations and on fiber with static IP and lead-acid power backup) for home hosted VPS in Sweden let me know! As for building something on the internet for only people living in the UK that is meaningless.