The Logic of Local Hosting!

Hi all! Just thoughts I would touch upon the issue of local or remote web hosting. Of course I'm not talking in technical terms, but geographical. Local being in the same country, state or region and remote being in freaking Never land. No, but on a more serious note there are few good reasons why you should not choose hosting closer to where you live, rather than far away. No different language, no different culture, no different time zones. Those are three basic reasons why youshould think domestic. Additionally to these rock solid facts, the chances are you haven't even bothered to check the offers in your own neighboorhood due to what I like to call Bling blindness. Of course the risk exsists that you won't get the cheapest price in your own country but try to think like this: You Get What YouPay For. If you pay an extra couple of dollars a month you'll not only get what you pay for, but the absense of our recently mentioned 3 facts. Think about it at least :-) This is an issue we have chosen to address, not only here on the blog but in our geographical toplists. You can find your country and web hosting type listed according to price, service and quality. Start by selecting hosting type in the top tabs in the index page.

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Commented by: Kathy-a hosting provider, 17 September, 2008

I agree wholeheartedly with your advice about using domestic web hosting services. As a friend of mine down in Texas pointed out after Ike hit his hometown, the only thing he had left that was still working was his website.

So if you are in a "disaster prone" area, then you might want to consider using a provider in a "safer" area of the country for your web hosting needs.

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