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by conductr 14 days ago
Any thoughts on why ~30% of HTTP request are in US? I know we had first mover advantage for awhile but I'd expect this to have been diluted by larger populations by now. It doesn't appear to be AI/bot driven either.
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chadgpt3 14 days ago
Network effect feedback. Cheap hosting in the US because servers are there, more servers are there because of demand for hosting. AWS is there - similar reasons. Big Tech had more time to develop there and eclipsed other countries' tech.
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yacin 14 days ago
my first guess would be a decent chunk of things bot operators want to scrape are in the US. might as well have your bot nearer to the source.
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arbol 14 days ago
Is it not just a case of most of their clients being US based?
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