I've been hosting in the US for years, and most of my sites are Australian sites. At first i worried about what I assumed would be lag, bu tsince i had no viable alternative at the time, I went with it.
I found that it made no practical difference where the box was hosted. I have a client with a fairly high-traffic Australian site on Hostmysite.com and while it's not perfect, none of the issues he lists includes "too slow response time." These US hosting companies have very big pipes to connect to, and multiple redundancy. My own hosting business for example is based in a giant data centre in Texas with thousands upon thousands of server boxes. I havent had anyone ever say to me that they want to move their sites to an Australian-based host because teh response time is too slow. There might be other issues and you should do you arithmetic on the money, but lag because it's hosted in the USA rather than the UK is NOT going to be one of your problems. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 5/31/07, Tom King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I shooting myself in the foot by looking at US hosting (i,e > hostmysite.com ) even though the majority of sites I run are in the > UK (or have a large UK audience + are co.uks?)? > > The pricing just seems so much... cheaper. > > There's the obvious issue of Lag, but if somewhere offers 24h tech > support, that should be the only issue? > > T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279659 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
