If you are on the Discord or following me on Mastodon/Twitter you might have already read about it, but pixeldrain now has three servers in Tokyo!
This took longer than expected. I already ordered these systems in November. First they had to be shipped from the USA to Tokyo which took a month. Then the network cards were out of stock which added another two weeks.
Then the connection between Europe and Asia went unstable due to an international conflict.
When that was finally over I started testing my software and discovered that the caching SSDs were not nearly fast enough for caching your files. And to top it off the boot SSDs were not fast enough to run the database either... At this point I was getting a bit desperate. I had spent about $10000 on these systems and had nothing to show for it yet.
Anyways, I ordered new SSDs. 12 x 8 TB NVME beasts from Kioxia. Configured them all in RAID0 (don't want my database to start complaining again). Now after a week of warming up the caches we're good to go! jp01, jp02 and jp03 are finally running in production!
So if you're anywhere near Tokyo, your download and upload speeds should have improved greatly. See the fruits of my labour by trying the speed test: https://pixeldrain.com/speedtest