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Local server or US server

sonic

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if you're not in us, half of visitors of your site come from your country.
Will you choose a local server for better local connection or local host but us server for better global connection?
 
It just depends on how much you want to pay. In the US, the cheapest per GB of transfer is ~$0.10(Cogent) and in places like Australia, it's more like $2.50 or something.
 
for me it's definitly the US :)

Here are some example quotes from different local webhosts here:
25Mb webspace/2Gb monthly transfer
2 POP3/FTP account
1 Domain pointer
PHP/CGI/Perl (no databases)
$99/year
200Mb webspace/2Gb monthly transfer
20 POP3 account
ASP (Access db's)
site statistics
$30.5/month
500Mb webspace/10Gb monthly transfer
CGI/Perl/PHP/mysql
1 Domain
$569.95/year (option 10Mb extra: $20/year)

and these are the lower class hosts :eek:
even if I did care about those few seconds it would load faster, it wouldn't be a reason to pay 5 times as much for less then what I have now.
 
Well you are in Hong Kong so you might pick someone who is on Singtel's backbone. Might be cheaper depending if it is bandwidth intensive.
 
Sonic, PCCW's network is better than Singtel, IMO.

Hong Kong hosting is not expensive at all. Many Hong Kong hosts offer unlimited transfer in a low price. How can anyone beat?:D
 
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