speed & price , which one is more important for you?

[xinganlia]

Hi all. I'd like to do a small research here about how do you choose a paid host.

As we know, our Internet speed is growing day & day. And normally users are coming from different countries for a website. So may I ask a question here, that if the speed is most important thing when we choose the hosting plan?

For example, if an asian company offer a hosting plan which have 15G transfer/m, 100M space & Php4/Mysql/Cgi/Cpanel3 & all features for just $4 per month. The only problem is the speed will be slower than US or UK.

Will you choose this plan?

[stu]

depends on how slow it is... if it's still relatively fast, I might consider it.. I do agree that there needs to be more budget hosts around, but there are only few that I've heard of that have a good reputation.

but I think most people want speed and reliability over a cheap price.

[niv]

I agree with stu. If it is as slow as surecity was when it was still around, then no way am I paying for it.

[ksstudio]

For me reliablility is the most important.

No point if your site is on a Dual Pentium III 1Ghz server + 4Gig RAMs + OC192 connection but your site always down.


just my 1+1 cents

[xinganlia]

I got the points.
Eventhough I'd like to choose

Double PIII 866
1G ECC SDRAM
Double 18.2 G SCSI Harddrive.
& connection speed will be not too bad.

The main idea is I'm in Australia. Whatever the US host or UK host or Asian host is same speed here.