The community members discuss whether using a VPS (Virtual Private Server) can significantly improve the performance of a website. The opinions are mixed:
Some community members suggest that using a VPS can provide faster access to the website's data, but may also result in longer latency for visitors depending on their location. Others state that the best performance is achieved by having a fast frontend on the edge (geographically close to the users) and fast data access, either at the edge or at least in the right continent.
The community members also note that if the website's data can be cached for long periods, the location of the data may be less important, as the first request can be cached for hours or months. This is particularly relevant for blogs, where the data origin does not matter much since the content does not change frequently.
However, the community members agree that the answer to the original question depends on the specific details of the website, such as what is being built and who the target audience is.
If data can be cached for long periods of time then the fact that data is on the wrong continent can be relatively unimportant, because after the first request oyu can cache it for hours or months