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Re:GitHub degraded performance – resolved by teh_klev on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:33PM (#28947983)
> There is an Azure datacenter within 100 miles of many of our home offices and I can ensure that our Github stack spins up there. Minimizing the amount of internet you have to transit to get to your applications can sidestep a lot of this stormy public cloud/internet weather bullshit.

You've no guarantees that your local'ish data centre is going to be hop-wise, route-wise and peering-wise any better than a DC 1500 miles away, in relation to your home or office ISP.

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Re:GitHub degraded performance – resolved by bob1029 on Thursday October 21, 2021 @05:46PM (#28951206)
> You've no guarantees that your local'ish data centre is going to be hop-wise, route-wise and peering-wise any better than a DC 1500 miles away, in relation to your home or office ISP.

You're correct. In fact, as I type this reply my cloudflare diagnostics are indicating I am talking to a datacenter 200 miles further away than would otherwise be ideal. That said, its still within an extremely reasonable distance. This is a "risk" I am willing to take. It's certainly a better starting point than guaranteed 70ms minimums.

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