Re: OT - PHP Hosting Service in UK?
| From: | John Nichel | Date: | Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:22:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: OT - PHP Hosting Service in UK? | ||
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Rory Browne wrote:
Why? If they're not hosting it in-house, why does it matter where on the globe it is?Seems to me to be too much worrying about a, "vary basic web site". The OP is willing to accept one or two outages a year, ya know? -- John C. Nichel IV Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek) Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo 716.856.9675 jnichel@dotcomholdingsofbuffalo.comRequest latency due to distance and intermediate hops. The shorter the distance and fewer hops the faster those little images, stylesheets, and various other embedded media will load. This won't be very noticeable on the first page load due to the download times, but other requests that check timestamps against cache will appear more sluggish than necessary.It's also more fault tolerent. I don't imagine this ever happening, but if the UK was somehow cut off from all other countries internet system, then the UK customers would still be able to access sites in the UK, but not sites outside of the UK. It's one less thing that can go wrong.