Hi,

I am based in the UK and I am looking at getting a dedicated server. I will be hosting clients web sites and so need a server with a good response time or at least what people would think to be a good response time.

There are a lot of companies in the US and Europe that offer very affordable servers but being further afield does this mean that the response times tend to be worse?

Are US based servers a good choice for a UK company if most of our clients are UK based themselves?

Thanks for the help.

Dan.

We host clients from all over the world on servers which are all located in US data centers. I don't think that response time is that big a problem today. But as the UK is a reasonable large market (I'm from Denmark ;) I would definitely rent a server located in the UK for UK customers. Or if all servers were in the US I would, for instance, place UK clients on servers in east coast data centers, Australian clients in west coast data centers etc.

John

It depends on the bandwidth provider. If you have Level(3) in the mix then you should be fine.

yes, generally the location of a server matters, however if a data canter has avery large redunadant network and backbone connections you would't see the difference much most of the time.

Our Data Center is in Frankfurt, Germany. the largest Internet Hub in Europe and our
redundant connection is 4.3GB/s.
Most Data centers even in the US run on T1 or T3 lines. which is a fraction of our speed. Our clients come from Far east , US and Middle east.

Good luck.
Mike
comserver.net

USA pings: 95-105ms (on average)
UK pings: 20-40ms (on average)

You will not notice the speed if your hosting sites for the uk on us servers. Check out www.nocster.net i get good pings from the uk to them.

Our Data Center is in Frankfurt, Germany. the largest Internet Hub in Europe and our redundant connection is 4.3GB/s.Do you own this datacentre, I think not.Most Data centers even in the US run on T1 or T3 lines. which is a fraction of our speed. Our clients come from Far east , US and Middle east.I don't believe this is fact.

Originally posted by comserver

Most Data centers even in the US run on T1 or T3 lines. which is a fraction of our speed. Our clients come from Far east , US and Middle east.

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you got this info from where? no one is going to pay for the setup of a T3 when you can get 100mbit installed for the same price today.


And in reply to the main post...
If your going for a US server try something on the east coast, as close as possible to NewYork/Ashburn/WashingtonDC as thats where the hop across the ocean is gonna land, this way you can have the lowest possible ping times from UK to US (the jump is 70-80ms so you can find <100ms pings to east coast datacenters)

If you are in the UK, I would recommend finding a server provider in the NAC datacenter that utilizes the NAC premium bandwidth. The pings are quite good for UK customers.