Thank you all for writing the code bases, the simulation and painstakingly debugging the whole stuff.
And a big thank you for writing it all down. It's nicely written. I jumped over some of the stuff as I have a bit of background knowledge. For me it was easy to "understand" the information.
About the server in Americas. I am not sure if it's a good idea or not but Linus Sebastian from LinusTechTips (check youtube if you don't know him) is known for playing Forged Alliance. Not sure if he has the time or is willing to host it (he plays to disconnect from work life and not connect to work life) but he probably has the knowledge and technology at hand to keep a server in Canada running. Maybe just shoot an email at thei linustechtips email and nicely ask if they would mind hosting it so he can have a better connection (I think he once complained a bit 
).
If it works out it works out and if not then not.
First entry on the "new" forum - since when do we have sso for forum and faf client XD...