+1 since I'm currently targeting UK/Ireland BUT... as nice as it would be to have the servers in the same country as my users, I haven't yet noticed a performance reason to do so. Early days yet I suppose.
ALSO... if you want to make use of other services hosted on AWS (like, perhaps, a MongoDB instance) then they'll also need to be in Europe or you'll suffer decreased performance Jamie On Mar 20, 3:14 am, Arto Bendiken <[email protected]> wrote: > This has been asked a couple of times [1, 2] before, but do you have a > time frame for expanding the Heroku offering to Amazon's European data > center (eu-west-1 in Ireland)? > > Needless to say, those of us building Rails applications primarily > targeting the 500 million people living here in the EU are awaiting > this development with bated breath ;-) > > I'm currently involved in building yet another Amazon ELB-based > cluster from the ground up, and I can't help thinking how much I'd > prefer to build it on the Heroku platform instead. > > Best regards from sunny Spain, > Arto > > -- > Arto Bendiken |http://www.makalumedia.com/ > > [1]http://groups.google.com/group/heroku/browse_thread/thread/826d629731... > [2]http://groups.google.com/group/heroku/browse_thread/thread/5b113a910c... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" 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/heroku?hl=en.
