On Tuesday 29 August 2006 13:04, Ben Devine wrote: > It would be wise to note alot of the webhosting companies branded as "kiwi" > or "nz" company, > often do not host within New Zealand.
Quite true. > This can be proved via a simple traceroute, at over 200+ ms away, I would > recommend using a NZ based and hosted company especially if his site is of > New Zealander target. This is not necessarily a big deal. Nearly half of that latency is going to be introduced by a NZ ADSL connection anyway. I believe hosting in New Zealand is good (lower latency, supporting NZ companies, etc.) but I wouldn't really call it a necessity. The major exception to this is if you have high bandwith latency sensitive content (streaming etc.). hads -- http://nicegear.co.nz New Zealand's VoIP supplier
