UK or US hosting

[about lee]

Which one do you go for? If you pick US and your from the UK why do you pick the US hosting? Also the same for US people if you pick UK hosting why is this?

 

[David]

That would be a strategic and marketing decision. I'm sure experienced UK based forum webmasters would choose UK hosting for ranking and speed reasons.

 

[Cody]

I normally use UK based companies (Pluto Hosting) because I work there and support from UK companies is also normally better, at least from my experience.

 

[Hitakashi]

PlutoHost seems to be in the US, as every domain pings to a USA location.


OP - It doesn't really matter, But if your focus is more about stuff in the UK, Or you expect to have a lot more UK visitors then any other country, Then it may be better getting a UK server.

 

[Cody]

The servers are in the US, but it's a UK based company.

 

[Kashike]

What about Canadian servers? 😛

 

[about lee]

Tbf i don't think it matters where your being hosted as speed is not effect much.

But ive been offered a deal for hosting to have space in both the UK and US which ill be looking to sell.

 

[David]

Tbf i don't think it matters where your being hosted as speed is not effect much.

Although limited, site speed is one of Google's points in search engine rankings. I'd much rather a fast local Australian host, then a slower US host, if I had an Australian based website, so I could advance in rankings over some US hosted site. SEOMoz reports that "Geographic Location of the Host IP Address of the Domain" is worth a high 57% of your local rankings (+ccTLD's). That's a pretty high amount, and so having a local host and adding it with Google's site speed ranking factor (about 5% important out of 200+ factors) does matter for ranking and speed.

 

[Mr. Duck]

I use hawk host which i think is in the us...

and im in the UK but i have been told my sites very fast