Vetting Heim Datacenter's EU Expansion: Latency Budgets, Failover, Exit Terms
Heim Datacenter took Omnes Capital investment for a European expansion, and that headline is the entire public substance. This short walks through how to vet the announcement as an engineering decision instead of a press release: separating what was actually stated from the gaps that decide your architecture, sizing the datacenter-attributable slice of a 300 millisecond p95 budget, probing from the instance class you intend to buy with a cold connection per sample, and the sampling window and jitter measurements that keep a single week of data from misleading you. It closes on the exit terms that belong in the contract rather than in a call: termination for convenience, the egress price list and its notice period, and how you export your data. Full write-up, including the due-diligence questionnaire and the Node.js harness: https://hackyjs.com/posts/vetting-heim-datacenters-european-expansion-latency-failover-and-exit-terms