Webhosting question
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I found mark's post[^] helpful if you are looking for a webhost. I could have posted this in reply to his post but decided to create a new one. Anyway, I was going through the list of hosting companies but I'm not sure which company to contact. Anyone had some experiences with them? Windows hosting here in the Philippines is quite expensive.
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I found mark's post[^] helpful if you are looking for a webhost. I could have posted this in reply to his post but decided to create a new one. Anyway, I was going through the list of hosting companies but I'm not sure which company to contact. Anyone had some experiences with them? Windows hosting here in the Philippines is quite expensive.
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Remember that the physical location of the host is irrelevant. One of the sites I look after is a subdomain of example.org.au, administered from a different location in Australia. The actual host is somewhere in the north eastern US, judging by the IP address. The only real hassle I have is having to jam my timezone down it's throat all the time. Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Remember that the physical location of the host is irrelevant. One of the sites I look after is a subdomain of example.org.au, administered from a different location in Australia. The actual host is somewhere in the north eastern US, judging by the IP address. The only real hassle I have is having to jam my timezone down it's throat all the time. Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
Peter_in_2780 wrote:
Remember that the physical location of the host is irrelevant.
Yeah. I believe the servers of the hosting companies here are in the US. One thing that concerns me though is the payment terms for those located outside the country. It's much easier if they have an office here. So unless they accept PayPal, I think it's quite a hassle for me to get one. If you can recommend some that has a lot of payment options, that would be great.
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Remember that the physical location of the host is irrelevant. One of the sites I look after is a subdomain of example.org.au, administered from a different location in Australia. The actual host is somewhere in the north eastern US, judging by the IP address. The only real hassle I have is having to jam my timezone down it's throat all the time. Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Remember that the physical location of the host is irrelevant
I don't agree. The physical location can be important. You will often have a higher latency if the physical location is far away (that makes sence) Let's say you put all your servers in Honolulu and all of your customers/users is located in Iceland. That's a wierd example, but in my case I always choose a hosting provider with datacenters close to my users. There is reason for why Microsoft put server centers all over the world and not one big data center in the US.
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Remember that the physical location of the host is irrelevant
I don't agree. The physical location can be important. You will often have a higher latency if the physical location is far away (that makes sence) Let's say you put all your servers in Honolulu and all of your customers/users is located in Iceland. That's a wierd example, but in my case I always choose a hosting provider with datacenters close to my users. There is reason for why Microsoft put server centers all over the world and not one big data center in the US.
In the general case, you have a point, but I remain to be convinced that this would be a significant consideration in Walter's case. Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Remember that the physical location of the host is irrelevant
I don't agree. The physical location can be important. You will often have a higher latency if the physical location is far away (that makes sence) Let's say you put all your servers in Honolulu and all of your customers/users is located in Iceland. That's a wierd example, but in my case I always choose a hosting provider with datacenters close to my users. There is reason for why Microsoft put server centers all over the world and not one big data center in the US.
If that is important to you, you can look at the CloudFlare CDN[^]
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