[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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