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Who do you peer with in Europe? I see in the US you use Packet (https://www.packet.com/) but I couldn't find any information about the EU, or do you focus on the US market for now?

We're also a LIR and want to build an anycast network (we anonymize streaming data), any helpful resources you can share on this?

Cool product btw! I think this will be a very interesting area in the coming years, the fact that you offer Docker containers is a good USP as compared e.g. to Cloudflare workers, we might even consider using your service ourselves if you provide service in Europe (our customers are mostly in Germany)!

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We actually have servers in North America, Europe (including Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific. The complete list is here: https://fly.io/docs/regions/#discovering-your-applications-r...

Building an anycast network is expensive. That's part of what we want to make accessible to devs. There are a couple of companies (like Packet, and possibly Vultr) you can lease servers from that will handle anycast. These tend to get you into the same ~16 regions, expanding past those can be difficult and even more expensive. That's what we're working on now.

Cool, thanks! I know Vultr but I'm looking for a second provider to fulfill the multi-homing requirement. And yes it's expensive and I think it's a valuable service to developers you're offering!

Having a more prominent 'locations' or 'regions' link on the website navigation/homepage might be helpful. It was the first thing I looked for even before pricing. It's currently a bit hidden in the docs.

I know locations are probably not super important to you guys as you see it as a starting point or something super flexible, but I always find myself drawn to the concrete stuff like that. Largely as a measure of how mature the product is.

Good call. We have a neat visualization we want to build to show what's happening, but we don't need to wait on that to make it more obvious.

Also a map would be a great visualization. A list doesn't really tell me much without a frame a reference

No south america :(

Yeah not yet. :sob: We're going to expand there and India as fast as we can.

Good to know, this looks great!

Btw any plans to support Java applications?

If you can build it in a Docker image or if you can deploy it to Heroku, then we support it :)

If it doesn't work, it's a bug.

Awesome, I had a misunderstanding it was only GoLang because of your github repos, get ready to get filthy rich with this.

If you ever come to SA, never partner with Localweb ( biggest/major local server provider ) they are garbage.

Curious - In what way would building an Anycast network be expensive ?

Running your own bgp in multiple data centers requires some reasonable network engineering skills. Anycast, specifically, is a complex beast. If you use multiple transit providers, you have to continuously tweak things to make sure people aren’t getting weird routes. Network providers like to send people over the cheapest (in dollars) routes sometimes, which makes things slow.

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