I would suggest hosting at a FIRST Teir provider (someone with a direct connection to MAEEAST or MAEWEST anyone in the Tysons Herndon Area that connects straight into MAEEAST is going to be pretty quick and reliable assuming they have redundancy built in. CAIS, PSINET, UUNET etc but you will pay more however you will have great reliablitly. I have a dedicated server at Digital Nation, a 1st teir dedicated server provider in Northern VA, NEVER have had a big problem. In the last year maybe 3 times there was a 10 minute outage and that was it. Kelly > -----Original Message----- > From: LetchfordDesign [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 1:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Hosting lag time > > This probably is too basic a question to be asking such a high powered > group, but here it goes anyway. > > I am going to be moving a few web sites from a hosting company that is in > close proximity to my location and the location of the businesses that > have > the web sites. > > In my search for a new host (which will provide ColdFusion, naturally), > how > significant is the factor of where the servers are physically located? > The > businesses are all locally oriented and most of the site traffic is > created > by clients in the local area (east coast in this example). Is there any > advantage to having the hosting company close by or could a company on the > west coast provide service with little evidence of additional load time > for > the sites? > > In advance, thanks for your thoughts! > > Gary Letchford > Letchford Design > http://www.letchforddesign.com > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or > send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in > the body. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
