Jon Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Having just got Effortless E-Commerce I am thinking about using VPS hosting in the US, but since most of my website members are likely to be in the UK at least to begin with, I am wondering whether this is a good move. When I registered on this forum, it took nearly 10 minutes to get the activation email whereas when I send and receive emails between my UK addresses it is virtually instant. Can someone tell me what kind of time lag I could expect for UK users accessing a website in the US compared to a similar quality hoster in the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathon Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 I don't think I experienced any lag when I joined. The first hosts I ever used were based in America, they were cheap and I didn't experience any lag either when sending emails to my phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 I wouldn't take how long it took to receive this email as any sense of things. There are too many considerations there. If I were you, I might be inclined to get UK hosting, but I wouldn't be bound to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted July 2, 2011 Author Share Posted July 2, 2011 I wouldn't take how long it took to receive this email as any sense of things. There are too many considerations there. If I were you, I might be inclined to get UK hosting, but I wouldn't be bound to it. Using email arrival time wasn't a good illustration, but all the same the routing issue is something I would like to consider as the quality UK hosting that I have found so far seems to be quite a bit more expensive than that in the US. I suspect that routing time over the pond may pale into insignificance as I will be providing full text searches on a very large database of text and individual pages of content will be anything from about 1K to 100K so having found out about Apache bench in the book, I would like to factor in all the other variables - a further excuse to delay launch - Another excellent book by the way Larry. regards Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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