<story><title>Where&apos;s the fastest place to put my server? How much does it matter?</title><url>http://calpaterson.com/latency.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rsync</author><text>Many years ago (2006 and 2009, respectively) I had to choose European and Asian locations for rsync.net storage arrays.&lt;p&gt;My primary, overriding criteria in choosing locations was &lt;i&gt;what would be the coolest, most interesting place to visit for installs and maintenance&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I chose Zurich and Hong Kong.&lt;p&gt;Measured results have exceeded my initial models.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Johnny555</author><text>The cloud ruined that fringe benefit, I used to manage servers in London and got to visit them quarterly. But now I manage servers all over the world, and it&amp;#x27;s impossible to see them physically, even the ones that are hosted nearby.&lt;p&gt;Though all things considered, I don&amp;#x27;t really miss sitting inside a cold, loud datacenter or standing in front of a tiny KVM monitor for hours just to load CD&amp;#x27;s to do a software upgrade.</text></comment>
<story><title>Where&apos;s the fastest place to put my server? How much does it matter?</title><url>http://calpaterson.com/latency.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rsync</author><text>Many years ago (2006 and 2009, respectively) I had to choose European and Asian locations for rsync.net storage arrays.&lt;p&gt;My primary, overriding criteria in choosing locations was &lt;i&gt;what would be the coolest, most interesting place to visit for installs and maintenance&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I chose Zurich and Hong Kong.&lt;p&gt;Measured results have exceeded my initial models.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hallucinaut</author><text>This is one of those comments that&amp;#x27;s difficult to interpret the meaning of... until you read the commenter&amp;#x27;s name.&lt;p&gt;(Love your work)</text></comment>