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Joe Dager: Well I think when people first that, they hear about pricing. The two things that pop
into my mind that I'll ask you about is: Where are these servers located? I mean, are they on a
Tibetan mountain somewhere? Where are the servers?

Matt Connor: I mean, if they were on mountains somewhere, we'd have to charge for that,
because that would be incredibly expensive. No, these data centers are in Dallas, Seattle, New
York, Montreal. The Dallas is the primary location, it's the one where we got the price the lowest,
and we buy the newest enterprise servers, stocked with the newest SSDs and the newest Intel
processors, with incredible amounts of RAM. We stock them in our data centers and offer the
servers out of there. Dallas is really the main one. I recommend them now because it's right in
the middle of the US, so if you're serving US consumers, you can get ideal latency across the

country.

Joe Dager: There is something to do with latency, it's why people will buy a server in North
America?

Matt Connor: Latency is really important because your visitors want a fast experience. Now, you
can hack around it by using Cloudflare in front of it to put your servers, your visitor traffic, closer
to the user. I think that's a good tool to use as well, but having closer servers in most cases just
because of the way latency works means you're going to have higher throughput from you, to
the server and from the server to the customers, which is really really, really important.

But depending on what you're doing, in many cases, you don't need the absolute best latency.
You can use something like Cloudflare to get it closer, you can get servers on multiple locations

if you really need that, but in most cases, one in the US is absolutely fine.

Joe Dager: Your servers, are they really for the normal layman? Do you have to have a certain
amount of expertise and background to have your own server?

Matt Connor: Yes and no. I mean, there are so many tutorials. There are so many different control
panels you can use that can abstract a lot of that away to make it as easy as point-and-click to
get a step done. Of course, if you're down on the command line, you get a lot more flexibility it

what you can do, but there are also some pitfalls. You may forget to set a password here and
there, and then your server may get compromised. There is a little bit of expertise; we're trying
to figure out ways to make that easier.

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