Which location do you prefer for a VPS in USA?

It really depends on your location. We offer Dallas and Montreal at the moment but it depends on what your customer needs. I know that Dallas has many datacenters so the infrastructure is quite good.
 
We are UK based, but have all our VPS in the USA.

we have servers in

Chicago
Dallas
Los Angeles

we also used to have one in Seattle

but we get the better performance etc to our UK clientbase from Chicago.

We have tried several UK servers, but have always hit issues, so no longer trust UK serves.
 
Posilan said:
Boo hiss :D There are some bad apples out there :disagree: but don't tar us all with the same brush :D

Steve
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Its nothing personal Steve, just when you have tried many and they all fail to deliver in one way or another, it makes you think is it worth trying to support your own countries services.
 
Absolutely. Its web hosting companies responsibility to fulfill customers requirements and provide them with a better service. Sometimes to earn some you need to lose some. Due to various issues people decides to opt for a hosting service in another country, however they should understand that there are several benefits of hosting their websites/applications in their own country. One should not only consider a specific benefit, instead he/she should weigh another benefits as well.

Today, many people in USA and outside USA are afraid to host their data in USA-based data centers due to the Patriot Act, 2001. People have several misunderstandings about the Act and thinks that the U.S. government can view and access their data. However, its not the truth as the purpose of this act is very different. It's not the case only with USA but, since the EU Commission has announced a similar act people have started whispering about it as well.

Hence, choosing a country for hosting doesn't depends only on the price and performance factors, there are various factors which can impact a consumers decision.
 
well when you get a server and after optimising it and it is still far too slow, and then others that keep crashing and large downtimes and then you have ones where they say they will support things like WHMCS, but then you find no way will it work on your server and the supplier support is rubbish, even if the servers were in USA i would never stay.
regarding the Patriot Act, 2001 its just paranoid people that worry, these days we are watched everywhere we go with CCTV and everything we do, so whats different with websites, if you have nothing to hide then whats the real problem ( its not nice to be spied on, but its just the way of life these days)
 
Completely depends on where your client base it located. I guess if it's a U.S. customer base I like the following...

West Coast: California (Los Angeles)
Midwest: Chicago or Kansas City
East Coast: PA, MD, NY
Texas
 
All My nodes are hosted in NY, USA (just so happens to be my location as well :) )

I have had nodes in Dallas and Austin TX as well, with great success.
 
Does it really make a difference enough that you need to choose a city?
What would be main impact of these decision? Speed?
 
again, depends on your targeted audience and locations.
This is the reason why many host offering multiple locations.
 
Instead of choosing a web host depending on the price factor, I will prefer to choose a web host much closer to my location, so that if any issue occurs I would be able to discuss it with the providers personally. In addition, the latency will be low as well.
 
Upon your target destinations. If you need good route to Asia you would take LA for example. So it's really upon destination of your traffic as main judgement.
 
I always prefer Chicago or Dallas for central Locations, But would like to also get LA and NY or NC locations. Then I would have 4 location around the US that could reach each past.

Chicago - for central US and Canada
Dallas for Lower Americas
NY or NC for East coast and possibly UK
LA for Asia like said Above.
 
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