Convex hosting region
Hey Convex! Where is the region of the database currently hosted? Also, is there any plan to make the data hosted on Asia region?
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Hey there! The database is currently hosted on the east coast of the US. We will likely keep the authoritative database storage there for the foreseeable future, likely until we roll out GDPR compliance and potentially consider non-US storage, starting in Europe.
If your concerns are latency though then we want to roll out regional caching when we get to it, to speed up access times, and Asia will be high on the priority list.
Re self-hosting we intend for the highly scalable distributed-system version of Convex to be hosted by us. We're in the process of open sourcing the Convex backend to support local testing and single-node operation, but don't intend this to be used for production workloads.
Would be interested to hear about whether your interests are motivated by latency, cost, or data ownership.
Yes my main motivation is the latency! and secondary would is data ownership 🙂
In anycase, im looking forward for you guys opening up a region in Asia! self hosted ones can come later in my case 😄