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If latency to Europe is an issue, why not just have a few machines in their Ireland datacenter?
by lucian1900 14y ago
If latency to Europe is an issue, why not just have a few machines in their Ireland datacenter?
- rdl 14y agoBecause distributing sites across multiple regions is hard -- high latency between your front end and database sucks, and replicating a database over high latency is also hard. If you can do it, great, but if you can't, then pick the best single region. US East or US West plus Direct Connect to your own colo space, with AWS for the burst capacity, and your own redundancy for the database servers, might be the best plan if you can't do wide area "over the Internet" database replication. (I might get an extra 10G DC (since I need 1G DC myself) and then have some colo for sale with it in US East/US West later this year.)