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by jacques_chester 4985 days ago
Put simply: cost. Collectively it's a few hundred Gb per month of traffic which is completely covered by my Linode plan.

These days I've put most of the sites behind Cloudflare, which has the effect that a lot of my media is being mirrored in their Sydney DC, which is nice because most of the readership is Australian -- the same reason I went to the Tokyo centre this time.
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andrewf 4985 days ago
The Tokyo DC isn't a universal win for Australia. The results are actually pretty bimodal depending on your ISP.

From Perth, iiNet routes directly to Asia, and it's a big win. But Amnet routes AU -> US -> Asia and it's a big loss.

It's a big enough issue Australia-wide that Blizzard sells a dual-region Starcraft 2 in Australia, because (ping to battle.net Singapore for some) > (ping to battle.net US) > (ping to battle.net Singapore for others) to a significant degree.

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jacques_chester 4985 days ago
Fascinating, I didn't know that.

So, being in Perth, I've picked the DC that serves me best. Hmm. I guess I will ask my bloggers how noticeable it is.

I tossed up hosting in Australia, but the bandwidth is just so utterly ruinous.

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