Re: UKNM: RE: UKNM Digest V1 #115

[Tomski]

> The only reason for hosting an aimed-at-the-UK eCommerce

>site in the US is one of cost. The reason (most) US hosting providers

>are cheaper than UK-based ones is because they have good US<--->US

>bandwidth but precious little if any of the expensive stuff -

>transatlantic


hmmm, dunno about this thesis  IMO the reason they're cheaper in the US is

cos their market is larger, much more competitive and also that US

operations are orders of magnitude more efficient, as are their levels of

service.


if you make your decision about who to use for e-commerce serving on just

packet latency/loss and price, you're making a mistake - factors such as

uptime and 24/7 support are much more important in real life - and from my

personal experience, I'd much rather pay decent money, for a decent service

in the US, and take the hit on packet latency.


The 'it's slower to serve in the US' argument is much over-used IMO,

especially since the really long wait is often the process credit card

clearance (always quicker in the US in my exp, since the lines to the

clearing banks are always live - unlike here, where you often have to wait

for the likes of NetBanx/Datacash to awaken a connection to their clearing

bank)


and anyway, one shouldn't be worrying so much about the tech - it's the

quality of your marketing that really determines success/failure


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