strictlyhiphop Posted February 22, 2004 Posted February 22, 2004 I have a question about hosting, if you live in the USA is it best to have a hosting company there or overseas? Also I thought that by having a oscommerce site was because it was more easier to maintain and cut down the cost. Please can somebody exlpain this to me. Vivian
bravejoey Posted February 22, 2004 Posted February 22, 2004 It's best to have your hosting where your target customers are. If you target US customers, then hosting in the US makes sense. Why? There's a shorter [network] distance between your customer and your server, which generally translates into less latency (as in, less time for the page to start loading) and faster page loads. If you target UK customers, then hosting in the UK makes sense.
ultratom Posted March 4, 2004 Posted March 4, 2004 US hosting is far cheaper then in UK. If you are cost driven then you might select US wherever you are in the world.
ibandyop Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 A traceroute to your hosting server will reveal that the communication is in milliseconds much less than the time to load some images and content. The bottom line. It does not matter which country your hosting company resides. If your worried about speed optimize your images and pages sizes. The current exchange rate favours UK customers hosting with US hosting companies. Suggest a payment for at least a year or two to take advantage of this. ibandyop
♥yesudo Posted March 15, 2004 Posted March 15, 2004 ensure you get 24/7 cover with your hosting if it is located in a different time zone. Your online success is Paramount.
Pompeylad Posted March 20, 2004 Posted March 20, 2004 I seem to be coming up with a diffrent problem with hosting. First I signed up for a ?4pm hosting service, which I thought was what I needed. After looking in to it I found out that the service did not inculed SSL, so I change companys. Now I pay ?19pm for a business hosting service, I then went to get SSL put on to my site and guess what it would cost me ?250 for them it place SSL on and ?75 per qurater. Ok, now do the sums, that will come to ?778pa. So this got me thinking, if I got a dedaicted server with the same company it would only cost me ?499pm plus ?60pa for SSL (if I install SSL my self). Big saving don't you think? But wait, don't I have to place anti-virus and security software? Yeah I do, so there is me thinking Nortons was only ?40 for my PC, so how much more could it be for a server? ?100 maybe? No, try ?1000, now that is just way out of my buget. OScommerce = Open Source = Free, cool. But what about the god darn hosting fees???? Am I missing a trick here? Can anybody point me in to a cheaper direction? Thanks, Pompeylad PHP?!? Long live HTML!!!! But then again we never stop learning.
Pompeylad Posted March 21, 2004 Posted March 21, 2004 Thanks for that Yesudo, but I really do not want a shared server. My veiw is if I am going to rent a dedicated server then why should I fork out for the up keep when the server is no where near me? Shouldn't the up keep be inculeded in to the price? Pompeylad. PHP?!? Long live HTML!!!! But then again we never stop learning.
♥yesudo Posted March 21, 2004 Posted March 21, 2004 They do dedicated servers also. Your online success is Paramount.
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