After doing some research it turns out that the reason GAE is so fast is that it is really a bot net running on every machine with Chrome installed. The speed comes from the fact that in many cases when you hit your own app it is very fast because it is running locally, but since very few servers are running Chrome, speed test tools often return a slower result because they have to hit some poor schmuck's computer, and if he is at Starbucks that could be slow.
:-) From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Wilson Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 3:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [google-appengine] Data Center (CDN) Locations I have been searching around but have not seen information on where App Engine data centers are located and how loads are spread? So I have two questions: - Where are the App Engine data centers? (i.e. West Coast, East Coast, Europe...) - What criteria are used to serve an app from one data center over another? We have an application we are building for a customer in Japan and would like to know if there is an App Engine data center in Asia so we will have lower latency. Thanks. Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/atIjL0tAAAYJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
