subject: Closer The Server Faster Is The Response Times [print this page] When you are looking for a new server for an existing website, or if you are looking for a server to start up your website for the very first time, there is a lot of information to go through. The internet is filled with all kinds of tips and tricks to make your life easier. It's best to follow a lot of this advice because most of the people writing it were in the same position as you once, and they had to make the mistakes themselves because there was nobody around to show them another way. Now it is possible for you to learn from their mistakes, and you should take advantage of that every chance you get.
When it comes to choosing a hosting server for your website, you want to keep one very crucial detail in mind: the closer the server is to you, the faster the response time will be. So before you go with that Indian server that has a great low price for all U.S. based websites, stop and think about it for a second. If you are in the United States and your server is in India, every request and every response will have to travel half way around the world before a request can be completed.
You may be thinking so what? Well, it's true that data transmissions travel extremely fast, almost instantaneously, but it's still not quite instant. All those extra thousands of miles may add up to maybe 2 extra seconds of transmission before a request is completed. In the online world, that's a long time. If you are waiting for a webpage to load, there is a massive difference between .5 seconds and 3 seconds. If your website continuously takes that long to load, you will soon find that you are losing clients. Something as simple as that can make or break you
