Not sure i did the transfer perfectly, but at least i can now log in from my desktop which is where i do most of my posting. Which should make it easier to post on here!
@MartinLewis Glad to see you transferred to the UK instance
@swebb "A" UK instance. Nothing is official. 😆
@ruario @swebb I hate to tell you this but their domain name routes via a US based content provider... it may not even touch the UK!
@paul @ruario cloudflare?
@swebb @ruario yeah, that's them
at the time of checking the A record was pointing to a server in San Francisco (this could indeed change depending on location... but I am in the UK)
@paul @ruario I'm not sure how caching (if that's the right term) works with cloudflare but I would have thought there'd be something a little closer like LINX
@swebb @ruario oh yeah, absolutely... I guess UK datacentres just aren't good enough 😁😇

it is funny the existence of location based instances though, it's great we have them, but we cant guarantee their legal responsibilities just on their name. I do know of at least 4 UK based ones (although they all seem to use cloudfare as well)
@paul since the company I work for transferred to Outlook 365 from our humble domain server under the stairs we always joke about saying "hi" to a three letter agency across the Atlantic 😄
I think the local timeline makes sense for those location based instances, but in terms of legal responsibilities well I'm not sure how the admins would navigate that!