View Poll Results: Datacenter Location Preference?

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  • Dallas

    13 26.00%
  • Chicago

    11 22.00%
  • Los Angeles

    4 8.00%
  • Miami

    1 2.00%
  • Virginia/Washington DC

    0 0%
  • Atlanta

    4 8.00%
  • New York

    8 16.00%
  • The Netherlands

    9 18.00%
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  1. #1

    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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    Seattle because it is close by where I live. Only a 2 hour drive.

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    If only I can vote multiple choices...

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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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    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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    Just curious, which of these locations do calamities happen most frequently?

    Specially 4 U
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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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    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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    LA because it is geographically the closest for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mefirst View Post
    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.
    indeed but what about london, frankfurt, madrid, paris, luxembourg,...?

    maybe i do not understand your poll question.

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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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    Add Panama as an option.
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    Chicago is my favorite!

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    I voted LA, but from experience I do prefer Chicago and it's fairly more central than others

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    Quote Originally Posted by xniteman View Post
    Why is everyone picking the location closest to him, instead of to his clients?
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by jabcott View Post
    The point is choice of preference from that specific list.
    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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    Dallas

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike - Limestone View Post
    Dallas

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    Bit of a biased answer/vote really

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by BuzzServers-J View Post
    Bit of a biased answer/vote really
    True, slight bias

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