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It's not so easy to move your servers to Europe from the US. Yes they may be more private there and not subject to seizure, but the added latency would be debil
by mikegioia 11y ago
It's not so easy to move your servers to Europe from the US. Yes they may be more private there and not subject to seizure, but the added latency would be debilitating.
It might make sense for privacy apps or services but for the vast majority of web applications these threats of surveillance aren't really worth the move.
- stephengillie 11y agoIt makes me wonder about the viability of a CDN system that's targeted at US end users, but is located outside of the USA. CDN nodes could possibly be set up in Vancouver, Toronto, Winnipeg, Montreal, Tijuana, Juarez, and Monterrey. But that would still leave a huge gap where the USA's population density is the greatest, in the states bordering WADC.
- mikegioia 11y agoI think if you're going to do a CDN system like that, you might as well just assume any CDN can be compromised. I would structure it where the data "nut" is in The Netherlands, and there are CDN servers everywhere caching pages with various TTLs. If you're TTL was low enough (like 5 minutes) you could lose a CDN and only have a fraction of your data seized. It definitely runs the risk that a CDN isn't just seized but "bugged".