Well thankyou erik! ... feel free to put one in Sudbury :P.
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Out of curiousity, is all of North America served by the California server?
Jan 20, 2009
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Loomis wrote:
Out of curiousity, is all of North America served by the California server?
yes. it's harder to split this kind of traffic east vs. west. other option is to put one in middle of country... but lag isn't that significant in USA.
Super news, Erik.
You do spoil us!
Q: Does placing servers benefit only the members in that specific region or will it also improve speed, here, in the U.S.?
ADK
ADK wrote:
Q: Does placing servers benefit only the members in that specific region or will it also improve speed, here, in the U.S.?
ADK
Well, think about it. The further you are away from a server, the slower it is. (Not including traffic) Since we use U.S. servers, and these new servers aren't being placed in North America... You figure it out.
I would imagine that servers in other countries would reduce the load on the US servers and thus have some positive effect on US response times. That could be a significant number of chess.com users that are now not slamming the US servers with requests.
Thanks Chess.com people!
I would imagine that servers in other countries would reduce the load on the US servers...
Depending upon how the average load percentage it could make a big difference. However, bloated ad code, third/fourth party server calls for those ads, and applications that are simply slowish due to processing demands could blunt the benefit a bit. Still a big plus to divert heavy international traffic. Better for everybody.
Raibutai wrote:
ADK wrote:
Q: Does placing servers benefit only the members in that specific region or will it also improve speed, here, in the U.S.?
ADK
Well, think about it. The further you are away from a server, the slower it is. (Not including traffic) Since we use U.S. servers, and these new servers aren't being placed in North America... You figure it out.
Relax there Mr. Gates.
Raibutai wrote:
ADK wrote:
Q: Does placing servers benefit only the members in that specific region or will it also improve speed, here, in the U.S.?
ADK
Well, think about it. The further you are away from a server, the slower it is. (Not including traffic) Since we use U.S. servers, and these new servers aren't being placed in North America... You figure it out.
Actually that isn't always the case, especially in the US with the general quality of our backbone.
What makes things take longer is the amount of bandwidth available on the BIG lines that the service providers in your area use, as well as how many servers your request has to go through to get to the site you want and return.
I've talked to some Australians who claim that even though there's a significant(~400ms) delay when accessing servers on the US west coast, the extra few thousand miles to go to the east coast is nearly unnoticeable and furthermore that going to Japanese servers was several times slower yet.
Does this have any effect on live chess? If so, I wonder if ILoveGambits can stay connected for more than 30 seconds. 
Jan 20, 2009
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Enormous_Gastropod wrote:
Does this have any effect on live chess? If so, I wonder if ILoveGambits can stay connected for more than 30 seconds.
Gambits internet connection consists of some dried kangaroo intestine routed underground, there is a crocodiles foot on one end that fits into his computer, and on the other end providing the power, is rolf harris on a treadmill :-)
Awesome!
gumpty wrote:
Enormous_Gastropod wrote:
Does this have any effect on live chess? If so, I wonder if ILoveGambits can stay connected for more than 30 seconds.
Gambits internet connection consists of some dried kangaroo intestine routed underground, there is a crocodiles foot on one end that fits into his computer, and on the other end providing the power, is rolf harris on a treadmill :-)
LOL. Is that what he told you? Or is that just your best guess gumpty? :-)
This week we added new servers around the world to help make Chess.com faster!
UPGRADED! Europe - we beefed up our existing server there to be bigger, better, and faster
NEW! Australia - we finally got a local server to help our Aussie faithful, as well as New Zealand and surrouding countries
NEW! Singapore - we just put a server in Singapore to serve all of Southeast Asia, India, China, and Phillipines.
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