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07-17-2009, 02:26 AM #1Newbie
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Datacenter Location Preference Poll
Hello All. I am trying to get a judge for the most preferred locations for datacenters. Where you would pick to have your server located if many of the locations were available from a single host. You may describe your reasoning in a follow up post if you would like.
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07-17-2009, 02:29 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Seattle because it is close by where I live. Only a 2 hour drive.
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07-17-2009, 02:51 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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If only I can vote multiple choices...
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07-17-2009, 02:53 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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New York / NJ area. I've had the best luck over in that area overall.
Nothing here right now.
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07-17-2009, 03:07 AM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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If many locations were available at one host and I had a lot of money, I'd get servers all over the place . However, like most here have / will likely vote, I voted because of the location nearest me and my target demographic: USA
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07-17-2009, 04:50 AM #6The Linux Specialist
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Just curious, which of these locations do calamities happen most frequently?
Specially 4 U
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07-17-2009, 05:21 AM #7WHT Addict
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sorry, but why did you limit it to this exclusive list i.e. no other European locations?
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07-17-2009, 07:38 AM #8Newbie
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I did Netherlands, as thats the only one you put in the EU and I am in the EU . Also I am of course going to pick the one thats closest to me.
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07-17-2009, 08:09 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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LA because it is geographically the closest for me.
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07-17-2009, 09:14 AM #10WHT Addict
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Datacenter Luxembourg
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07-17-2009, 09:39 AM #11Junior Guru Wannabe
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Why is everyone picking the location closest to him, instead of to his clients? Well maybe most people primarily serve local clients but still...
What I'm most interested in is this: which location has the lowest average ping among all US and European English speaking internet users? So you need to consider locations, distances, and population distributions, etc.
Maybe Atlanta? Or somewhere in the north? I'm assuming here that my visiters will be evenly distributed among all English speakers in US and EU of course.
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07-17-2009, 09:46 AM #12Junior Guru
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Add Panama as an option.
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07-17-2009, 09:56 AM #13Web Hosting Master
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Chicago is my favorite!
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07-17-2009, 10:28 AM #14WHT Addict
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Texas, assuming most of your traffic is in the U.S. because it is a central location so people on both coasts (west and east) should have about the same results.
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07-17-2009, 10:48 AM #15
Hey, what happened to St. Lous? It's more central than Texas. I do agree that it's really moreso about the location of your customers. There are lots of great datacenters - but I suspect it more often boils down to price vs services.
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07-17-2009, 02:00 PM #16Web Hosting Master
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The poll seems sorta pointless... as preferred location depends on too many factors not in consideration, a big one being the majority location of the end users.
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07-17-2009, 02:03 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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It needs more locations. More in Europe, and there aren't any in Canada such as Montreal or Toronto. There are also none for Asia.
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07-17-2009, 02:05 PM #18Newbie
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The point is choice of preference from that specific list. If everyone just lists their favorite city there will be no hard data. The city list is of locations that have high concentrations of bandwidth availability and competitive space&power pricing. Some of the citys I see being asked about do not have one or both of these. (Asia? Canada? Other places in Europe? There are centralities for pricing)
If there is an overwhelming support for a specific city not listed, voters can post it in the thread and quote each other to gain some votes that way.
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07-17-2009, 02:30 PM #19Marketing Maestro
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I voted LA, but from experience I do prefer Chicago and it's fairly more central than others
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07-17-2009, 02:37 PM #20Disabled
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In case you have to actually go to the data center to do some work on your servers. If you live on the east you don't want to take a 5 hour plane ride to the west to do a couple of hours work on your server. That is why they pick places closest to where they live. To pick a place closest to the clients, that would be impossible since clients are all over the world, at least mine are.
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07-17-2009, 02:54 PM #21Web Hosting Master
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You've asked people to make an arbitrary choice...
where only you knew the underlying reasons for the choices (being "high concentrations of bandwidth availability and competitive space&power pricing")
You should have just made the poll "which location has the best concentrations of bandwidth availability and competitive space and power pricing?"
Many people are voting based on their proximity to a certain location. If you're not in the same location as them that data seems pointless?
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07-17-2009, 03:13 PM #23Marketing Maestro
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07-17-2009, 03:16 PM #24Web Hosting Master
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Dallas for me because of central location. Plus it works out pretty good for people in Europe and Asia.
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