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Most of your users are in Iraq or the Kurdistan Region
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Pick Erbil. Single-digit-millisecond latency to Baghdad, Sulaymaniyah, Mosul, Basra. No EU hop penalty.
We run infrastructure in two places, picked for very different reasons. Erbil is the live location and the one that matters for Iraqi traffic. Germany is coming soon for European reach and global redundancy.
Our Erbil datacenter sits inside Iraq, so requests from Baghdad, Sulaymaniyah, Mosul, and Basra resolve in single-digit milliseconds instead of bouncing through Frankfurt or Istanbul on a 60–80 ms round trip. For anything customer-facing inside the country, that latency penalty is the difference between snappy and sluggish.
Erbil itself has become the regional tech hub — the city hosts the largest concentration of Iraqi software companies, regional ISP peering, and government-adjacent infrastructure. Building here means we are next to the people who actually need us.
When Germany goes live, it will give you European peering, GDPR-friendly data residency, and a low-latency landing for Iraqi diaspora customers in the EU. The same KVM stack, the same USD pricing, the same support — different geography.
We are picking Germany specifically for its central-Europe peering depth and established connectivity to MENA — your traffic gets to and from Iraq fast enough that Germany doubles as a useful redundancy partner for your Erbil VM.
Most of your users are in Iraq or the Kurdistan Region
Pick Erbil. Single-digit-millisecond latency to Baghdad, Sulaymaniyah, Mosul, Basra. No EU hop penalty.
Your audience is in Europe or globally distributed
Wait for Germany, or pick Erbil now and migrate when Germany opens. We will help migrate at no charge.
You need data residency inside Iraq
Erbil. Period. Your data stays in-country.
You are running game / voice / real-time workloads
Match the location to where your players are. Erbil for Iraq audiences; Germany (soon) for European players.