[Foundation-l] [Internal-l] Relocation Announcement

[Delirium]

geni wrote:
> On 24/09/2007, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Following up on this (as I was asked this recently by a journalist as
>> well): Is there a reason why we don't "decentralise" our servers more,
>> be it inside the US and/or on the global scale.
>>
>> Michael
>>     
>
> Moving database servers out of the US on any scale creates
> problematical legal issues.
>   
It's also a negligible improvement on technical grounds. If you look at 
the time it takes between a user requesting a page on one of our sites 
and them getting the result, trans-oceanic packet transmission times are 
not anywhere near the bottleneck.

-Mark