I'm in Australia, and I've built my business up to now mostly on small
businesses. Then I discovered ColdFusion and I can see how most of my
clients will benefit from the things CF could provide. In short I could
do a better job for them.
But as anyone in Australia can tell you, Australian-based CF hosters
aren't low-budget business, while my clients are.
I have to either get them to pay a lot more, or host them overseas - no
doubt a US based hoster.
Has anyone in Australia/NZ hosted sites on US CF servers? What I'm
interested in is whether the horror tales of very slow download speeds etc
are for real or just Aussie salesman's talk. I can see that from a sheer
money point of view, there are a zillion better options than the 4 or 5
main CF hosts here in Australia. But if it results in clients saying they
are moving because their site pisses off too many of their customers
because it's too slow, it's not much of a bargain.
For those who don't fully appreciate the issue, it's all well and good
for a hosting company to say they have multiple T3s and load balancing and
fast servers etc, but if the site is held in a bottleneck getting across
the Pacific Ocean, the site's still slow. What I'm not sure about is
whether this is just talk or it's a real problem for US Hosted .com.au
sites.
Cheers,
Mike Kear
AFP Web Development
Windsor, NSW, Australia
http://www.afp.zip.com.au
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