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    California <-> Germany : 200ms
    California <-> Canada  : 80ms

What's the problem?

If you need decent response-time everywhere in the world, you go and buy Co-Location. http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/racks

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No, the problem is I don't need decent response-time everywhere in the world. I need decent response time in California. That's where the majority of my visitors are from. Latency is the tradeoff you make when you buy overseas servers to save money.

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