Where to host the server

Low latency within Russia, in-country data residency and proper invoicing

A Russian location solves two problems at once: minimal latency for an audience inside the country, and keeping data on Russian territory, which the law requires for users’ personal data

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