>Getting a high amount of paid internet traffic from Asia
>Server was hosted in and while there are some minor discrepancies in traffic received on my tracker and what is actually billed it's still within an acceptable range
>Did an oopsie on the server
>Decide to spin up a new one and randomly chose one located in Frankfurt
>"Shouldn't be an issue because it's 2023 and Frankfurt's probably closer to Asia in terms of distance "
>Traffic drops by like 50% while I'm still billed for the same amount as previously
>"Darn it I probably need to bid higher "
>Traffic still half of what I am paying for
>"Maybe I just need to optimise the configuration on the server "
>Still getting BTFO-ed
>"Guess I should pay more and upsize the server even though it doesn't make sense "
>Same
>For some reason ended up on some page that shows global ping statistics
>Frankfurt to Seoul 297.96ms Frankfurt to Tokyo 235.42ms Frankfurt to Hong Kong 202.29ms
>Portland to Seoul 115.82ms Portland to Tokyo 85.77ms Portland to Hong Kong 132.56ms
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I know this has mostly been a result of my own stupidity but the company I was using for serverrs didn't have any presence in Asia and the burger servers were generally fine
But I didn't think that there would be so much difference in latency using Europoor servers vs Burger servers
FRICK
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did you forget that its mostly war zones between europe and singapore???
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please stop hurting yourself it will make you an r-slured
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I am already r-slurred
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Euro neighbors discovered america for the express purpose of getting to asia without going through shitholes. OP should have remembered.
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Yeah, traffic from Europe to East Asia is typically routed through the US. I suppose it's because networks in central asian countries are shit.
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