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Follow-up to [1]; while most of our cloud servers are in Helsinki, the latency from most of Europe is lower when accessing servers in Germany.
Pinging from multiple locations using ping.pe, the latency to Nuremberg from most locations appears to be 10-20ms lower (compared to Helsinki).
[1] !500 (merged)