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Also known as: European backbone
Server infrastructure and spool located in Europe, most often the Netherlands or Germany. Latency is lower for European subscribers, and the region hosts a large share of the world's binary capacity. Several retail brands resell the same European infrastructure, so two accounts bought from different websites can turn out to read from one spool.
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