Did you measure the latency difference by any chance? I am really considering bu...

MehdiEG · on April 27, 2012

That's what typical response times look like: http://i45.tinypic.com/qq1xmd.png

(this measures the total time to download a static Hello World HTML page 325 bytes in size hosted on IIS from an EX 4S server in Hetzner's DC15 data centre).

thibaut_barrere · on April 27, 2012

Thanks for providing a screenshot - exactly what I needed to know!

tdr · on April 27, 2012

NY: ~100ms

CA: just under 200ms

Asia: even +300ms

didn't check Southern hemisphere

ot · on April 28, 2012

"Speed of light sucks" (John Carmack)

matt4711 · on April 27, 2012

Australia ~350ms

Sapient · on April 29, 2012

South Africa, ~210ms

thibaut_barrere · on April 27, 2012

Great, thanks!

deanpcmad · on April 27, 2012

But also you could use Cloudflare to make your site faster in these regions :)

kragen · on April 28, 2012

250ms to Fibertel in Buenos Aires.