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[RylaiShendelzare]

California, if it's even going there, is a pretty logical position in terms of logistics, maintenance, and upkeep.

This is a joke right?

[TheCount]

California, if it's even going there, is a pretty logical position in terms of logistics, maintenance, and upkeep.

Hah, you must be joking

[Takamorisan]

This community never ceases to amaze me. I bet if Square gave everyone a free sub for a year, someone would find fault with it. Pissing and moaning IS NOT going to change where they are going to put the server. Actually no, it was probably because of that pissing and moaning that drove them to move the server from Canada in the first place.

California, if it's even going there, is a pretty logical position in terms of logistics, maintenance, and upkeep. You can't please 100% of the people 100% of the time.

I want some of those drugs.

[Lissandra]

I used to live there all my life up till last year of June. If only I had never moved... >,> lol.

Would have just been funny knowing how close I was to the physical data center if I was still there. XD

[KrenianKandos]

East Coaster here that is in Ottawa.

Getting a ping of around 107ms so it's nothing crazy for East Coasters to worry about; as some have mentioned, it's mostly based on your IP that'll determine what kind of ping you'll get.

Funny enough, I enjoy seeing my tracert run from Ottawa, Montreal, New York, St-Louis and then Sacremento. That's quite an interesting zigzag...

[Kosmos992k]

East Coaster here that is in Ottawa.

Getting a ping of around 107ms so it's nothing crazy for East Coasters to worry about; as some have mentioned, it's mostly based on your IP that'll determine what kind of ping you'll get.

Funny enough, I enjoy seeing my tracert run from Ottawa, Montreal, New York, St-Louis and then Sacremento. That's quite an interesting zigzag...

People who get bent out of shape about the straight line distance should look at the straight line distance of those hops. When people complain about the distance to the server they utterly ignore the fact that the actual routing of their packets could be covering anything from 1.5 to 10 times the geographic distance to the host server. Because of that, the number of hops and where the hops are matters far more than the physical distance from their home to the server.

Last thing I'll say since this is getting very fraught...I previously ran a tracert to the old data center on my residential internet and got something like 260ms round trip times. Then I VPN'd into to my corporate network, and via their business class connection using the same damned ISP (business vs consumer!!) I had RTT under 60ms. 200ms difference with the exact same geographic distance. So, geography is not the issue, routing and hops are.

[Matrinka]

Has this actually been 100% confirmed?

Also - how do I ping / do a traceroute to see how bad it'll be for me?

[BorisDaBlade]

Hah, you must be joking

Where else? Middle of Nevada? Eastern Oregon? Somewhere in Kansas? South Dakota? At least in California it's a quick to get to. It's the darn Silicon Valley for crying out loud.

SE probably put a bid out on where to place the server and California was cheapest. Capitalism at its best.

[TheCount]

Where else? Middle of Nevada? Eastern Oregon? Somewhere in Kansas? South Dakota? At least in California it's a quick to get to. It's the darn Silicon Valley for crying out loud.

SE probably put a bid out on where to place the server and California was cheapest. Capitalism at its best.

Yeah gosh such a good choice over like a central location that easily would accomodate everyone in your continent instead of as far possible west, which is probably also much less populated than the east coast i'll remind you. Not like there aren't good central locations with good infrastructure or anything. Nooooo...

[DRHaymaker]

Where else? Middle of Nevada? Eastern Oregon? Somewhere in Kansas? South Dakota? At least in California it's a quick to get to. It's the darn Silicon Valley for crying out loud.

It seems like you're completely missing the point - anywhere in the middle of the US, or at least not the coast, is a better than this option. Even splitting to both coasts makes more sense than this. Ultimately we'll see how much this affects performance. Undoubtedly however, this makes people less happy, with at best the people who are affected take an apathetic view, which isn't representative of a majority.