True. (You may also note the time of my initial post; I was still awake at 0320, and this was shortly after the quake...); I wasn't being particularly precise.
However, SFBA isn't even the first ___location for most companies I see. They go either into the cheaper AWS cloud regions (us east or the Oregon), or managed hosting somewhere (rarely SFBA).
Bay Area companies which directly get colo early on are fairly rare: stripe, square, etc. I fully support it as a strategy, but it is statistically insignificant.
Aside from price, east coast single ___location also gives you a lot better latency to Europe. Asia is usually screwed anyway, but the extra 80ms makes a big difference.
However, SFBA isn't even the first ___location for most companies I see. They go either into the cheaper AWS cloud regions (us east or the Oregon), or managed hosting somewhere (rarely SFBA).
Bay Area companies which directly get colo early on are fairly rare: stripe, square, etc. I fully support it as a strategy, but it is statistically insignificant.
Aside from price, east coast single ___location also gives you a lot better latency to Europe. Asia is usually screwed anyway, but the extra 80ms makes a big difference.