Where to host the server

Germany and the Netherlands: cheap traffic and good uplinks

Europe is the best price-to-resources ratio on the market: Germany and the Netherlands give twice the memory for the same money compared with Russian sites

Low latency for a Middle East audience, with local legal entities

The UAE makes sense for a specific audience: the Middle East, the Persian Gulf and South Asia

Providers with a wide data-center network

Providers with a wide data-center network are needed when the audience is spread out and there is no single right region

Locations in the USA: useful when your audience or services are in America

The USA remains a center of gravity for services that integrate with American APIs: payment systems, email providers, cloud platforms

Locations in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is chosen as a compromise: latency to Russia is lower than European, the jurisdiction is separate, and payments are simpler than with far-abroad countries

Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Turkey: low latency for an Asian audience