Today we’re rolling out a big improvement to our new EU-based servers. Along with the option to host your web pages in Europe, Micro.blog will now also copy your photos and other uploads. It will copy your data the first time the feature is enabled, and then going forward will maintain a copy on both sides of the Atlantic.
This means all your blog content can be served from Europe. Your blog and all its photos will remain up even if our servers in the United States were ever to go down.
If you’ve already enabled the European servers checkbox, your photos have been copied. There’s nothing else to do.
If you’re enabling the European checkbox for the first time, you’ll see this status of the progress:
You can continue to use Micro.blog and it will finish copying in the background.
You might also see URLs with a new hostname: eu.uploads.micro.blog. This is a CDN that pulls photos from our European servers but still caches them in both North America and Europe, so there’s no new performance hit for visitors outside of Europe. All of this should be seamless.
These are the biggest changes we’ve made to Micro.blog’s infrastructure in years. The result should be a more resilient and scalable platform. Happy blogging!
