Hi,

One third of my web hosting customers are from Asia and Europe, while the rest is from South and North America. My servers are in Edmonton, Canada (tera-byte).

I receive very few complaints about connectivity / speed from customers based in America, although I do get complaints from time to time from customers in Europe and Asia about not being able to access their pages, and I am having a hard time convincing them that there is no outages to report and that there is nothing I can do unfortunately.

So I am wondering if there would not be something I could do actually to give them a better service. I see two options, and I would have to get everyone's opinions and experience about it.

1- Colocate a server somewhere in Europe. Expensive. I haven't found any provider I could actually afford in fact. Except may be http://www.ultraservers.co.uk/ but I do not know much about their offers yet. I would like to get comments from people colocating or leasing servers from datacenters in Europe. How much do you pay, how good is the connectivity with other Europe location and America, etc...

2- Colocate servers in a datacenter in USA which has a good connectivity with Europe. I've heard that Verio in Virginia was a good choice. What should I look for in a datacenter if I want good international connection?


Everyone's opinion is welcome.

Thank you,


Cedric

Cheapest colo here in the Netherlands is about $90 a month, that would be for 1 U with 100 GIG of transfer. Dunno bout connectivity, but Holland/Germany are nice and central in Europe...

Hi,

This seems like a great price, I would like to know who are this or these colo you're talking about.

Thank you,

Cedric

You might want to have a look at www.asuk.com - they do colo's for reasonable rates, dependant upon bandwidth. (Reasonable for the UK - don't expect mega-bandwidth at low cost!)
I have a dedicated server with them - always found them helpful and pretty flexible. Connectivity throughout Europe has been good and fast.

Let me know if you need any pings / traces

Toatpc

UltraServers have competitive pricing, if you negotiate - it's not far off Tier 1 pricing in the US. They use Redbus Interhouse in London, which is a great DC. However, the Telehouse in London has even better connectivity than Redbus Interhouse - so that would probably be your best bet to reach eastern European / the middle east and Asian countries.

Matt

Hi Smash,
Go for Geographical mirroring put the primary in US and take geographical mirroring from some asian country.
Tell me if u have any country in mind and i will search for u.

Umi.

I don't know about Asia, but NAC.net (you can get servers through Site5) has very good connectivity to Europe at least. In fact they are 9 hops away from me here in Ireland. Most web sites actually hosted in Ireland, by comparison are at least 10 hops away.

avara, I was also going to point out NAC.net for their direct connection to London too. I have noticed that this is also used by pwebtech's dcjn network too.