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Does server location matter in same country?
Should i host the country specific website in the server at same country?
for example I have a heavy traffic website for UK. which is only for UK people. and my client only ship his product to UK address only.
then in terms of performance would it be good to choose UK based hosting company which server are in UK too, for better performance , latency of website.
or even if hosting server is in USA will not effect to site.
You should host your website in a data center thats geographically located near your user base for best performance. The other option is to use a content delivery network which will store your data on edge servers all over the world so each user gets the closest route.
As an example I found a random website in the uk and looked up the DNS A record and did a trace route (I'm located in Texas)
traceroute to 193.169.91.238 (193.169.91.238), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
1 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 1.480 ms 0.723 ms 0.628 ms
2 108-235-80-3.lightspeed.hstntx.sbcglobal.net (108.235.80.3) 788.531 ms 780.693 ms 409.371 ms
3 * * *
4 * * *
5 12.83.86.93 (12.83.86.93) 20.891 ms 20.272 ms 20.280 ms
6 12.122.212.9 (12.122.212.9) 87.968 ms 46.264 ms 26.243 ms
7 192.205.32.26 (192.205.32.26) 63.689 ms 26.243 ms 26.633 ms
8 xe-3-0-0.lon25.ip4.tinet.net (89.149.184.249) 137.521 ms 136.887 ms 151.067 ms
9 connexions-4-london-gw.ip4.tinet.net (77.67.94.102) 278.847 ms 182.103 ms 443.533 ms
10 ringo-kusanagi.c4l.co.uk (84.45.90.134) 311.445 ms 275.900 ms 243.683 ms
11 kusangi-phoenix.c4l.co.uk (84.45.90.181) 144.054 ms 144.116 ms 144.341 ms
12 grn-fw-cluster-g13.clouddata.com (84.45.39.66) 138.558 ms 137.389 ms 137.263 ms
13 svr100265.customer.clouddata.com (193.169.91.238) 137.613 ms 138.024 ms 137.095 ms
14 svr100265.customer.clouddata.com (193.169.91.238) 140.828 ms 138.152 ms 137.082 ms
Compare that to a trace to a data center in my same state:
traceroute to 70.87.255.226 (70.87.255.226), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
1 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 1.519 ms 0.597 ms 0.627 ms
2 108-235-80-3.lightspeed.hstntx.sbcglobal.net (108.235.80.3) 452.515 ms 830.522 ms 322.706 ms
3 * * *
4 71.144.128.116 (71.144.128.116) 24.355 ms 20.964 ms 20.781 ms
5 12.83.36.1 (12.83.36.1) 20.628 ms 20.591 ms 20.184 ms
6 gar25.dlstx.ip.att.net (12.122.85.233) 26.815 ms 25.810 ms 26.580 ms
7 ae-9.r01.dllstx04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.8.237) 26.733 ms 26.368 ms 26.246 ms
8 ae-0.softlayer.dllstx04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (157.238.224.230) 26.329 ms 26.742 ms 26.482 ms
9 po32.dsr01.dllstx3.networklayer.com (173.192.18.229) 26.889 ms 26.781 ms 26.457 ms
10 te3-2.dsr01.dllstx2.networklayer.com (70.87.253.130) 27.399 ms 26.739 ms 26.888 ms
11 te1-2.car19.dllstx6.networklayer.com (70.87.255.226) 27.528 ms 27.035 ms 27.488 ms
