[thelist] "Local" Hosting - why?

Jamie Burns jamie.burns at dynamicexpression.co.uk
Thu May 10 14:05:02 CDT 2001


I am looking to host my latest site in the country i expect most of the
traffic to originate from (USA in this case). i would expect less lag for
most of my customers.  than if i sqeezed my content over the trans-atlantic
pipes if i hosted here in the UK.

I dont know how valid this comparison is, but it is interesting...

USA rackspace:

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C:\>ping rackspace.com

Pinging rackspace.com [207.71.44.100] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 207.71.44.100: bytes=32 time=140ms TTL=230
Reply from 207.71.44.100: bytes=32 time=140ms TTL=230
Reply from 207.71.44.100: bytes=32 time=156ms TTL=233
Reply from 207.71.44.100: bytes=32 time=156ms TTL=233

Ping statistics for 207.71.44.100:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 140ms, Maximum =  156ms, Average =  148ms

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UK rackspace:

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C:\>ping rackspace.co.uk

Pinging rackspace.co.uk [194.164.155.2] with 32 bytes of dat

Reply from 194.164.155.2: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=54
Reply from 194.164.155.2: bytes=32 time=63ms TTL=54
Reply from 194.164.155.2: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=54
Reply from 194.164.155.2: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 194.164.155.2:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 31ms, Maximum =  78ms, Average =  50ms

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UK pings look to be twice as fast.

I recommend choosing your hosting provider in a country that A) has good
international links, and B) is home to most of your customer base. You can
always mirror your site in a couple of different continents if need be.

Jamie Burns (www.dynamicexpression.co.uk).

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Anderson" <neuro at well.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] "Local" Hosting - why?


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben Henick" <persist1 at io.com>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 4:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [thelist] "Local" Hosting - why?
>
>
> > [snippage]
> >
> > 2.  While it's true that the com/net/org are total free-for-all TLD
> >     spaces, the same is not necessarily true for country TLD's.  As a
> >     result, if I wanted to build a site in the .co.uk space I would
almost
> >     certainly want to go through a British hosting provider, since
> >     they'd be able to interface much more efficiently with the registrar
> >     for .co.uk when compared to providers in other countries.
>
> But every third party .uk reseller has to go through Nominet, so
> realistically the only barrier is different currencies (which most banks
> don't have a problem with), and time differences (but Nominet members
> register through an automated system so again, not much of a problem for
the
> domain registrar).
>
> > 3.  Domestic bandwidth usually has less lag than international
bandwidth.
>
>
> Not always true ... some UK ISPs have better peering arrangements to the
> States and Europe than to the rest of the UK :)
>
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