As far as I can tell, even if you are in Region 3, the server that is pointed to is in Germany.
But this brings up a concern I had last year and didn't get any comments.
This is a hobby for us, and of course the developers. I can't imagine the amount of time in design and production and setting up servers, say nothing about educating themselves about lightning and how to detect it.
On the other hand, there are a lot of contributors out there already, and if, don't jinx it now, if something strange would happen (accident, heart attack, etc), the system would be dead in the water.
I'm wondering if we could find a suitable situation where a server could be set up here, in the US? Obviously Egon would have the control, but unless he's tweaking code frequently, to upload stuff to him in Germany for EVERY noise and strike seems a bit of a waste, even in this era of ridiculously cheap internet across oceans. And those data could be sent packaged to him from the US. And if someone tripped over the cord in his office, this part of the system would stay up. If he and the rest got bored before we do, as long as the servers kept running, we'd still have this to play with. No further development nor bug fixes, but when he gets caught up on all the new stuff and fun things they have figured out, I wonder if they should be approached about having a 'remote' server here in the US.
By the way, I'm very pleased to see the enthusiasm for what the latest real-time mapping has brought to our computers. Indeed there was a time I was toying with robbing a bank and buying a month's worth of lightning subscription from Weather Tap just to have the high resolution. And a friend who worked for a major power distributorship had contacts within the company with such a subscription and they could determine, to some degree, which pole was hit or within a stretch of poles.
To have this system is an incredible toy and to me, who has dreamed of this network for over a decade but having neither the smarts nor organization to create it, am very pleased someone else does and I can be a small part.