launch a node in Singapore instead of HK (Asia)

[danisharora099]

in reference to waku-org/js-waku#1465 (comment), it seems a better option to launch a node in Singapore instead of Hong Kong for Asia

[jakubgs]

I don't think this is easily doable for 3 reasons:

• We run Consul clusters in each Data Center we, as well as metrics and logs hosts.
  • I don't want to deploy a set of those only to support one or two nodes for this fleet.
• We use a Terraform module called infra-tf-multi-provider that assumes a DC in Alibaba cloud.
  • The zone is hardcoded and changing that would not be trivial.
• Migrating to Singapore would not really be doable for a lot of fleets because we could not preserve IPs.
  • Floating IPs are usually re-usable within a given DC, but not outside of it.

I don't think this change is worth the amount of effort it would require, unless you think it's very high priority.

And honestly, Waku protocol development would benefit from some bad latency =], that's what you should be building it for.

[fryorcraken]

Fair comment. Happy to close.

[jakubgs]

Now, if you do think this is actually important, we could do a Singapore node IN ADDITION to the Hong Kong one more easily.
Replacing Hong Kong one would be a massive pain, but if you just want one more host, for a total of 4 that would be feasible.

My question though would be, would that be specific to this fleet only? And if so, would it be for all stages or just one?

[danisharora099]

All good for now, @jakubgs. Thanks for that.