> Soon you will be able to buy a VPS in space to halve that.
Maybe if you migrate it every 5 minutes. Otherwise it's spending half its life on the other side of the planet.
Maybe if you migrate it every 5 minutes. Otherwise it's spending half its life on the other side of the planet.
The point here is that going to geostationary is at least a quarter second round-trip, and blows the 25ms estimate out of the water. You can put servers in orbit if you really want to, but you can't have a satellite that's both fast to access and also in range for more than a few minutes at a time.