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05-22-2011, 09:40 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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why are most VPS providers "not creative"?
WHy most providers are "not creative" when choosing a location for their servers?
Hi, where are your servers located?
Its either
If they colo:
burst, Phoenix Nap, joes, HE, FDC. Mention 5-10 more places and its likely to cover around 65% of what we see .
I understand that you have to seek cheap locations but diversity is also a selling point ( even if a bit more expensive)
Do you have xen boxes?
Xen??are you mad? we would have to 2x or even 4x our current prices.
when it comes to "parting" a dedi, then seems like SL takes the lead, LW in EU .
What I see odd is that even the UK which has a small place has tons of options.
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05-22-2011, 09:52 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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I guess its all about comfort zone and buzz word "specially on WHT".
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05-22-2011, 09:57 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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seems like it
LEB has similar stuff though
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05-22-2011, 10:08 PM #4
There are plenty of 'creative' ways do VPS plans. However, I agree that many are in a race to the bottom with the same locations.
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05-22-2011, 10:38 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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I guess you want to be where the pipes are the fattest.
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05-22-2011, 11:00 PM #6Hello World
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05-22-2011, 11:13 PM #7Eternal Member
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This doesn't always matter, especially when you're generally going to have either a 100mbps or 1000mbps uplink to your server. At that point it does not matter whether the facility has 50gbps or 200gbps of capacity, as long as the have enough capacity for your bandwidth needs (and the rest of their clients), with a good amount of overhead. Typically, this isn't a problem. It would be more important for them to be using quality network providers with good routes to your target audience.
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05-22-2011, 11:21 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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It would be more important for them to be using quality network providers with good routes to your target audience.Hosting is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.
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05-23-2011, 02:38 AM #10Eternal Member
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Maybe we are talking about two different things, but what I am basically saying is the actual capacity of the network does not matter too much. If they've got only say a couple of gigabits of connectivity (which isn't considered much these days), that's still enough to comfortably host a good amount of servers and serve plenty of customers.
Consider a user who has a 20mbps connection from their ISP (and that's faster than an average user), and the server they are downloading from has a 100mbps uplink going into switch, ultimately leading to a gigabit (1000mbps) connection a carrier, the user with the 20mbps connection still has the potential to download at the maximum possible transfer rate. If the network had 10,000mbps connections to their carriers, it still wouldn't make a difference here. The only reason you'd need those types of connections if if you were actually serving enough users to justify it, but an individual user won't see a difference in performance unless the network was originally congested.MediaLayer, LLC - www.medialayer.com Learn how we can make your website load faster, translating to better conversion rates for your business!
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