> it's fairly well connected (on top of multiple transatlantic cables) Not as well as you'd think. We see substantial packet loss to Iceland for long periods a

> it's fairly well connected (on top of multiple transatlantic cables) Not as well as you'd think. We see substantial packet loss to Iceland for long periods at least once a week, and very occasionally the entire country disappears from the internet (maybe every couple of months). Also so far we haven't found a datacentre that we feel we can trust to care about reliability as much as we do. I've just spent the last four hours dealing with our entire Iceland presence being taken off the internet because someone at the datacentre misinterpreted our normal replication load as a denial of service and blocked the entire thing. We're trying, but so far we do not have the confidence that we could reliably provide user-facing services from Iceland, or at least not to the standard that we do from New York.