Originally Posted by corvette

we have done many things to expand our presence outside the US in the previous months? as of a few days ago, we now have direct processing centers located in Amsterdam, Ashburn and Phoenix. Each of these facilities are capable of displaying forms and accepting transactions from consumers and his allows us to send consumers to the closest available node or processing center to ensure that connectivity is established and the transaction is processed in a timely manner. Essentially enabling our transactional system to achieve high availability AND better performance globally leading to more sign ups, better conversions, and happy customers no matter where in the world they are located. It's similar to the CDN concept expect that our system must allow dynamic data (as is the nature of transactional processing) as opposed to a CDN that typically only supports static data.