Affinity between Nodejitsu and IAAS

Question

I'm evaluating Nodejitsu for hosting Node.JS.

I'm trying to understand the relationship between Nodejitsu and IAAS providers. In particular is Nodejitsu providing me the machines or can I choose that my machine will be on some specific cloud provider in some specific zone.

Here's my need: My node service will need to communicate with a separate machine which I will set up myself (due to heavy customization). I want this machine to be on the same data center of my Node servers so in/out network cost and latency are minimized.

Answer 1

Per the nodejitsu FAQs, if you are on a personal plan, your host is Joyent's us-east-1 datacenter in North Virginia (USA). Business plan users are able to choose from additional datacenters which include Joyent's us-sw-1 in Las Vegas (USA), eu-ams-1 in Amsterdam (Netherlands) or Telefónica's eu-london-1 in London, England.

Looks like additional datacenters will include Joyent San Francisco (USA) and Telefónica in Madrid (Spain).

Update:

Nodejitsu recently experienced an extended outage which is documented in detail on their blog. A consequence of this was to drop support for Telefónica Instant Servers.