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Originally Posted by Harry
Yeah, I agree with you there 
The last company I worked with had a server in Canada, 2 in the States and another in UK. We had customers basically from each of those 3 countries and found it easier for the customers. It also keeps things more organized, because we can assign all people from that region, to that certain server. |
that is not always the case. network routes are at times more complex than most people think. We are partnered with Peer1 because of network traffic and peering they are what I believe to be the best routes for North America Traffic.
We also have hundreds of customers in Europe and hundreds in Australia and since Peer1 has routes to Europe most of our customers have short hoops to the servers. Our Australia customers also don't complain.
however, we do have servers in 5 different data Centers around North America and now looking to add data centers in Europe and Australia through acquisitions so maybe I read routes a little different.
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