PenguinManiac
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A thought that has always plagued me about hosting is: how much does a server's location influence its performance? It must surely have an impact proportional to the distance you put between your server and your typical user because of latency and response time, but I've never been able to quantify it.
Let's suppose a webmaster decides to upgrade to a VPS plan to step up its website's performance, but in order to save he picks a hosting with servers located in a different continent (e.g. you go with European servers, but you have a mostly American userbase).
Would the speed loss due to the distance balance out the increased speed coming from the improved VPS performance or would you still get a net speed gain? Considering the other benefits coming from the upgrade from a shared hosting plan to a VPS, would you say such a choice would be worth the money or would you rather spend a considerable additional sum to ensure the maximum possible speed gain?
Let's suppose a webmaster decides to upgrade to a VPS plan to step up its website's performance, but in order to save he picks a hosting with servers located in a different continent (e.g. you go with European servers, but you have a mostly American userbase).
Would the speed loss due to the distance balance out the increased speed coming from the improved VPS performance or would you still get a net speed gain? Considering the other benefits coming from the upgrade from a shared hosting plan to a VPS, would you say such a choice would be worth the money or would you rather spend a considerable additional sum to ensure the maximum possible speed gain?
