Re: s3 location

[Johann Klähn <kljohann@gmail.com>]

Excerpts from Jurgen Weber's message of 2011-07-07 06:38:55 +0200:
> Thanks, Colin/Users can I please get a 100%? Where are you hosting it?

 From a thread on this list some months back:

Subject: EU based server & storage
Excerpts from Colin Percival's message of 2011-01-24 13:12:39 +0100:
> On 01/24/11 04:01, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote:
> > Tarsnap looks like an excellent service. Ironically I learned about it
> > from coverage of the recent security bug, but the open and comprehensive
> > response to the bug inclines me towards more trust in the service than
> > any amount of marketing from other providers.
> 
> You and lots of other people, it seems.  In the two days following the
> announcement going out there was a 500% increase in new accounts.  (Sadly,
> now the rate seems to have gone back to normal levels.)
> 
> > However, I'm nervous about having our company data stored outside the EU
> > (I'm in the UK), encrypted or otherwise.
> > 
> > Are there any plans to host an instance of the service in Amazon's EU
> > data centre (in Eire)?
> 
> Not yet.  The server bits need a fair bit of TLC -- they're very stable, but
> occasionally I need to tweak things a bit to avoid performance problems --
> and managing everything twice over would be difficult at the moment.
> 
> Once I get some more of the server-side performance bottlenecks sorted out,
> though, there should be less need for regular tuning and setting up an EU
> version of Tarsnap would be more feasible.  This is unlikely to happen sooner
> than 2012, though.

Note that they were talking of the server the data gets sent to
initially. I assume it is also stored on an US-based server.

I hope that helps,
Johann