Six cities, all our own metal

Not a vanity map pin

Plenty of small companies sprinkle flags on a slide to look bigger than they are. That's not what this is. GabForge genuinely runs its own hardware in six regions — Germany, Switzerland, California, Dubai, London and Singapore — and the spread does real work. It's how a small team keeps a model serving around the clock and keeps things feeling fast for users on four continents.

Why spread the metal out

We could have put every server in one cheap rack and called it a day. We didn't, for three concrete reasons:

• Speed close to home. A request from Singapore is served from Singapore; one from London, from London. Nobody's words have to cross the planet and back for every sentence, so replies feel instant instead of laggy.
• The model is always watched. With servers across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the US, the sun never sets on our on-call. A hiccup at 3am in one region is mid-afternoon in another — someone is always awake to catch it.
• Data where the rules want it. For users and laws that care where information is processed — GDPR in Europe, data-residency expectations in the Gulf and Asia — having real hardware on the ground in those places isn't a marketing line. It's a location on a map.

The thread that ties them together: we own all of it

Every one of those six sites is our own metal — not rented slices of a hyperscaler's cloud. That's the part that matters. It means the same promises hold everywhere: a fixed cost that keeps the free tier alive, data on machines we control, and nobody able to change our prices or pull our model out from under us. (More on that in Why we run our own machines.)

The honest trade-off

Six regions means real overhead for a small team — more sites to run, more time zones to coordinate, more that can break than a single office would have. We feel it every week.

We accept it because it's what lets two of our biggest promises hold at the same time, everywhere: genuinely fast service near our users, and genuinely private infrastructure we can answer for. One without the other, and either the experience or the privacy promise gets shakier. Together, across all six, they hold.