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Server in Germany, Visitors in Asia – Is Latency a Problem?
Hey guys, I’m targeting visitors mainly from Asia (especially Southeast Asia). Would it significantly affect latency and performance if my server is located in Europe, for example in Germany? Or is it still acceptable considering caching and CDN solutions?
Appreciate any input. Thanks!
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I think it depends if you are serving apps or static sites. If static sites with near 100% caching to a nearby PoP then sure, no problem. Otherwise, from experience, serving apps from a distant server makes the user interface feel very sluggish and just overall a bad time. Personally would not go for that if possible, there are many great providers in APAC.
Depending on your services.
For websites like LET, probably OK, if you put it behind Cloudflare or something similar.
For latency-critical services such gaming, probably no.
Thanks for the input, really appreciate it!
Yeah, I figured it might not be ideal for dynamic content even with caching. That helps clarify things a lot. 👍
FWIW usually I (KL, Malaysia) get around 150-180ms to Germany providers. Good for websites, and like you already know by now definitely not good enough for anything ping sensitive.
I have web server, database, redis, and sentry server in germany. But some websites mostly have visitors from Indonesia. No latency problem.
Hi,
from the philippines to france you have around 280ms, from philippines to germany you have around 220ms
From singapore/hongkong it will be less as the distance is ( a lot ) shorter.
Even with this 220-280ms websites wont have any relevant issues ( as long as you have not high performance demanding visitors that a website with any content will have to load in 0.5 seconds ).
Just like @dedipromo pointed it out, it entirely depends on what service you want to provide and how demanding the visitor's are.
Yes. TTFB matters too.