On that note, as a quick update for you guys, I'm actively in the process of syncing up a few more endpoints for stratum servers.  Ideally sometime this weekend we'll have them up and running.  Plan is to have a US East, US West, and EU (Netherlands) endpoint available.  No geo-loadbalancing to being with (you'll have to manually set your preferred endpoint), but should drop latency a bit, and add a few failover pool locations in case we have to do rolling maintenance in the future.