I noticed the extra polish and fixes going into Galaxy recently , I know it’s a bit of a busy time and all (thank you for your hard work!), but I noticed the regions are different for Meteor vs other frameworks.
Meteor still includes the classic AWS region ap-southeast-2, but for the other frameworks like AdonisJS and Ruby on Rails, there’s new region codes like g1-eu-west instead of the old AWS codes, and I’ve noticed Sydney’s now missing, which is our main region.
Mind you, I think it’s just fly.io that has Sydney out of Galaxy’s main “focused” competition (e.g. Render, Railway etc often have Singapore). After that you have to go to VPS-centric hosts with their mini-clouds like Digital Ocean, or to AWS/Azure/Google Cloud.
I guess a broad question is: what is the mid-term and long-term strategy for regions, particularly with the new frameworks? And what challenges are there for adding the new regions[*]?
And maybe to the rest of the community, how much do national boundaries matter for most people, when latency isn’t an issue?
[*](I note that at the moment Supabase is having some drama on Reddit because they’re having trouble allocating enough resources in different AWS regions)
Hey @ceigey! For the new frameworks, we’re using a new cloud partner. This gives us more flexibility and better control over regions, performance and cost, as we’re no longer tied to a single provider.
In the beginning of next year, we will also migrate Meteor apps to the new infrastructure. Customers who prefer to stay on AWS will have the option to do so.
To answer your questions directly:
Sydney: It’s on our roadmap. Our priority is to match all current AWS regions on the new infrastructure. So, Sydney is definitely coming.
New Regions: After we match our existing regions, we will expand further based on customer demand. Each new region is a significant investment, it involves money, engineering effort, and ongoing monitoring. We need to see enough demand or potential to justify that commitment.
Thanks for the feedback!
And maybe to the rest of the community, how much do national boundaries matter for most people, when latency isn’t an issue?
I’m also curious to know what the community thinks.
Being able to choose which cloud provider and region I can host my app on would be the best for me. I host my MongoDB on Atlas, so I need at the very least be able to host my app on a hosting provider they have for performance reasons.