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Originally Posted by Mauzen "The best ping no matter where you are" Thats an interesting task. Technically, the ping always differs for different distance/amount of nodes between the server and client. This means there is no "best ping". Though you can determine the optimal location for a server to minimize the average ping of your players. Therefore you need an estimation of where your players/visitors will come from. With that distribution you could calculate the weighted center of your players. Usually optimisation uses squared distances, so that weighted center would be the point at which the sum of the squared distances to all players is minimal. Leaving out bad connections and slow servers, this would indeed be the server location with the "best ping" for all your players. E.g. if youre looking to have 50% usa players, and 50% china, you would most likely pick a server in west europe. 90% usa and 10% china would rather result in a server in central usa.

Mhmm gotta love that, had 60-80 Ping from London to New York while a guy from New Jersey had 100 or so...