I'm generally a proponent of buying local, but I'm not sure how much sense it makes to go with a local web hosting provider. Why is it you're looking for local? The typical reasons include reduced cost/impact for distribution and/or keeping money locally. Buying local web hosting does absolutely nothing on the distribution front. Perhaps if the majority of your site visitors are local you could make some argument that a few electrons are saved, but that's one heck of a stretch in imagination. Data centers are massive energy hogs and I would imagine that there's a certain level of energy efficiency in bigger data centers vs. small, local, colos. I'd make the argument your making much less of an impact on resource usage by going with a bigger data center.
Keep in mind that most "local" hosting providers are simply reselling a non-local service. In fact, this is what our company does: we resell Rackspace's Mosso "cloud" hosting service. We've been with them for a few years now and have been pretty happy with the service. You don't get a "server" so much as a hosting "infrastructure" that can grow or shrink in capacity as you need it. Thanks, Bradley On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Mike Raley <[email protected]> wrote: > ya know, I've often thought about running my own hosting business on the > side, virtual hosts, on a monthly fee through some of the local colo and > ISPs. It's the economic inability to compete with the non local providers > which has stopped me. Is this something where a local Co-op model might be > an efficient way to go? Is there enough of a "buy local" segment in the > local IT people to make something like this work? > > Mike >> >> On Mar 22, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Forest Bond wrote: >> > Why limit yourself to local options? >> >> Because it is the Vermont way. :-) Local business to local >> business. Locally owned, locally served, organic Internet. >> Well, you get the idea. > > > > > -- http://bradley-holt.blogspot.com/
