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    How much does location matter?

    I have a weather sensitive site that has big spikes in traffic (up to 20GBs in a day). Most of the traffic comes from No. California. I'm considering a host in Texas. Does the host location have any significant effect?

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    If it stays in the US it probably won't make a big difference. Texas is a centralized location but if you get most of your traffic from Northern California I'd aim for as close as you can get to your target audience.
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    check the backbone too .
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    Originally posted by pixelized
    If it stays in the US it probably won't make a big difference. Texas is a centralized location but if you get most of your traffic from Northern California I'd aim for as close as you can get to your target audience.
    I agree as long as its within the US you should be fine.

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    As long as its in the US It should be fine, but a server on the East Coast as compared to one on the West Coast can make a difference even if not too much
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    In the same country, United States, should be ok. Once it's out of the country or across the globe thats when visitors would experience delay.

    It depends on the host datacenter.
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    try he.net & mediatemple.net - both in CA

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    I'd definitely say that a location within the US is OK. Also, although I live in Europe I get excellent speed with most US-based sites.
    For instance, I have a site with Micfo (Texas) which has a quite fast ping time from my location.
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