[realityking]

Out of curiosity, why Frankfurt?

Speaking as a European, it would be nice if you could keep it performant over here too ;)

[sytse]

Because Frankfurt was close to Delft and we wanted to reduce latency to move the data, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9171533

We think the east coast of the US is the best compromise considering our user base. Can't solve speed of light :/