As developers, we optimize code for milliseconds, but we often ignore the physics of fiber optics. If your users are in Paris and your server is in New York, you are fighting a losing battle against the speed of light (~85ms RTT minimum).
I just published a deep dive on why we built our infrastructure in Frankfurt at Fit Servers.
The Tl;dr:
DE-CIX Peering: Traffic stays on-exchange.
The Math: 12ms to Paris vs 90ms+ from the US.
The Hardware: We are running EPYC and Xeon builds that handle burst traffic without the "noisy neighbor" issues of shared VPS.
If you are building SaaS, Gaming, or HFT platforms targeting Europe, the location of your bare metal matters.
Read the full technical breakdown here: [https://www.fitservers.com/blogs/germany-dedicated-servers-location-advantage/]
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