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| Thread ID: 109042 | 2010-04-21 20:36:00 | New Zealand web hosting | Vallis (8886) | Press F1 |
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| 878919 | 2010-04-21 20:36:00 | The difference in pricing, bandwidth, and storage provided by domain hosting companies in New Zealand and the US, UK, or Australia is colossal. Can anyone give me a good reason why I should choose a local host for a re-seller account? I've had two websites hosted by a US company for several years with no performance issues. I now need a re-seller hosting account. I'd prefer to buy local but I'm struggling to justify paying 2, 3, or 4 times the price for arguably less resources. The difference is so vast that I don't understand how the New Zealand hosting companies survive. |
Vallis (8886) | ||
| 878920 | 2010-04-21 21:44:00 | I pay $10 a month to webbase. The help people are here in NZ, the servers are here in NZ. Everything is in NZ. I prefer that as it can be an issue if overseas. And, support your local company too....... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 878921 | 2010-04-21 21:49:00 | Economies of scale. Thousands of customers vs. hundreds of thousand or even millions of customers. Also other costs are higher here. Try and get a decent fibre link at a reasonable price anywhere outside of CBD or serviced business districts like Albany. I have a local account for hosting .co.nz domains and an overseas one for .com etc. ( At the time I set this up the overseas hoster could not service .co.nz) I pay in two months to local hoster what I pay an overseas hosting service for a whole year, with vastly different resource allocations. |
HAL9000 (12736) | ||
| 878922 | 2010-04-21 21:56:00 | If your client base is mainly in NZ the performance would obviously be better. I've had a forum hosted in the US and the load speed was much slower than now, when its hosted in NZ. Just do a speed test to a NZ server v a server overseas and you'll see the difference. And as pctek said its better when the support is local, much less hassle if anything goes wrong. |
WarNox (8772) | ||
| 878923 | 2010-04-21 22:41:00 | If your client base is mainly in NZ the performance would obviously be better. I've had a forum hosted in the US and the load speed was much slower than now, when its hosted in NZ. Just do a speed test to a NZ server v a server overseas and you'll see the difference. You would be surprised, I'd estimate over 9/10 people can't tell the difference (Myself included). We're talking 50ms vs 250ms in terms of response times, and you need jack all throughput to load a 200KB web page. If the speeds are really that bad, it's an issue with your host, not with the location of it's geographical hosting. Take PressF1 for example, it's hosted in NZ, but frequently has issues. Fault of NZ? No. Fault of the US? No. Fault of FFBM? Well I'm not going to point the finger, but ... |
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