I think @yoursunny has been promoting the moon lately for his summer host. With that lag I'm sure it'll even out pretty much any two points in either continent.
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Which country is best for colocation to have neutral performance for both the USA and Asia?
Both Asia and Americas are too big to measure "performance". Pick specific countries you want and check the ping times first. thæn consider bandwidth and colocation cost.
For me, I see ping time as such:
200ms - barely enough
150ms - ok
100ms - good
anything bellow 100ms is very good. anything above 200ms is rejected.
After that, I check data transfer speed.
For me, living in Singapore, if I want a good peering, I would go with a server in LA as that provides low ping time to both Singapore and to US.
However if I want good peering within Asia, I would go with a server in Singapore itself. Expensive but good performance to most countries in Asia.
I personally avoid servers in EU region as they have poor peering with Asia in general.
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With JP servers you can get sub 100ms to parts like Seattle in US, and a decent latency to most of East Asia.
Singapore would be the most balanced towards most of Asia, and with good peering/low latency routes you can get as low as 150ms to Western US.
Hong Kong would be a balance between these 2.
In terms of value/low-end price, I'd pick the US West coast.
JP has earthquakes (although you have them in California too, at least you don't pay a premium for it!).
Singapore is expensive.
Hong Kong can be problematic (censorship, political content).
So for me the US beats any other Asian country.
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There isn't really a location that is "Great" for both, but if you're alright with just being "okay" then some Asia optimized transit from Seattle or Los Angeles or something may be suitable.
If you're wanting to target (broadly) the US and (broadly) Asia in general, then something like US: Chicago, Kansas City or Dallas is pretty centralized and pretty good connectivity to the major population centers on either coast. Then just Singapore or Malaysia or something for Asia which will be okay. Can just pick one to start with with the intentions of eventually opening a second POP to better target the other market down the line.
I'd say the US will be much cheaper and less picky about speech related things, if that's even remotely a concern for you.
Even with Cloudflare, if the origin servers are no in a good location performance may still be bad in some countries
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I think @yoursunny has been promoting the moon lately for his summer host. With that lag I'm sure it'll even out pretty much any two points in either continent.
Both Asia and Americas are too big to measure "performance". Pick specific countries you want and check the ping times first. thæn consider bandwidth and colocation cost.
For me, I see ping time as such:
200ms - barely enough
150ms - ok
100ms - good
anything bellow 100ms is very good. anything above 200ms is rejected.
After that, I check data transfer speed.
For me, living in Singapore, if I want a good peering, I would go with a server in LA as that provides low ping time to both Singapore and to US.
However if I want good peering within Asia, I would go with a server in Singapore itself. Expensive but good performance to most countries in Asia.
I personally avoid servers in EU region as they have poor peering with Asia in general.
If you want information, feign ignorance reply with the wrong answer. Internet people will correct you ASAP!
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Think you'll need to test it tbh because its so dependent on backbone etc in ways that isn't geographically intuitive
With JP servers you can get sub 100ms to parts like Seattle in US, and a decent latency to most of East Asia.
Singapore would be the most balanced towards most of Asia, and with good peering/low latency routes you can get as low as 150ms to Western US.
Hong Kong would be a balance between these 2.
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In terms of value/low-end price, I'd pick the US West coast.
JP has earthquakes (although you have them in California too, at least you don't pay a premium for it!).
Singapore is expensive.
Hong Kong can be problematic (censorship, political content).
So for me the US beats any other Asian country.
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There isn't really a location that is "Great" for both, but if you're alright with just being "okay" then some Asia optimized transit from Seattle or Los Angeles or something may be suitable.
If you're wanting to target (broadly) the US and (broadly) Asia in general, then something like US: Chicago, Kansas City or Dallas is pretty centralized and pretty good connectivity to the major population centers on either coast. Then just Singapore or Malaysia or something for Asia which will be okay. Can just pick one to start with with the intentions of eventually opening a second POP to better target the other market down the line.
I'd say the US will be much cheaper and less picky about speech related things, if that's even remotely a concern for you.
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If both US and Asia are of interest, then Finland is a good choice.
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I would wait until Trump invades brings democracy to Greenland and get a server there.
Should be cheap since the cooling is free.
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Nobody mentioned Antarctica???
Cooling is absolutely free and @yoursunny can absolutely cut a good deal for you.
They even have IPv9! This is the best thing out there!
About the same RTT around the world!
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How is the latency, ping, peering between New York and Singapore?
https://wondernetwork.com/pings/Singapore/New York
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Japan. nowhere else
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Russia or Turkey (Asian sides)?
Put it behind cloudflare.
Even with Cloudflare, if the origin servers are no in a good location performance may still be bad in some countries
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USA, specifically Los Angeles.