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Should they?

You could do the maths on conversion rate increase if that latency disappeared vs the cost of spinning up a dc & running it (including the mess that is localised dbs)

I’m not sure the economics works out for most businesses (I say this as an Australian)






Probably not, because the if-statement in my post is likely false. The Australian user base is likely not high enough.



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