Start where your users are.
A nearby city is a useful starting point, not a measurement of your application's responsiveness. Real requests travel through access networks, transit providers and routing decisions that a straight line on a map cannot show. Before choosing a region, identify where your audience connects and which services your application must reach. Compare representative requests from those networks, including busy periods, rather than relying on a single test from your own connection.
- List your main user regions and external service dependencies.
- Measure response times and consistency from representative networks.
- Repeat tests at different times and compare the same workload.
Ask sales which testing options are available for the configuration you are considering; this guide does not promise a particular route or latency.
