Thanks - helpful response :) T On 31 May 2007, at 00:11, Mike Kear wrote:
> 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 >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279687 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
