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Just seems hacky to me. Opening a whole data center to shave off 70ms? Now I see why they need 500+ million.


70ms can really affect the time people spend on a site.


You know what takes longer then 70 ms?

All the js/css/other stuff facebook includes on their homepage (one server round trip each).

Before they spent the millions it takes to bring up another data center they should have read this:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/help/#guidelines

Also, I disagree that 70ms makes that big of a difference. People are more used to slow sites then people realize - anything less then 200+ ms improvement in the aggregate and I wouldn't spend a dime (not to mention millions of dollars).




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