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Clouvider in London.
Well, as longer it gets the shittier the speeds go.
Maybe something close like NY, CA or UK, FR.
Or just get a decent CDN like bunnyCDN and a cheap VPS/Dedi at Hetzner.
Or even buy some Slabs at BuyVM and setup your own Anycast for 6$/m.
I can offer you something in the UK, you said a mirror so perhaps this will be a good option, based in Clouvider DC UK/London so smack bang in the middle:
1 CPU Core (fair share none dedicated)
512 MB Ram
100 GB Disk space
500 GB Bandwidth @ 1 gbit (shared - unmetered inbound)
1 IPv4 address
/64 IPv6 block
https://clients.inceptionhosting.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=204
€13.00 p/Year.
edit: I may have misunderstood your meaning of 'mirror' sorry.
Perhaps this is of more interest then, also UK/London:
Platinum Hosting
https://clients.inceptionhosting.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=191
€7.00 p/year
CA (California) should not be under consideration at all for this, it is completely on the other site of the US (US West - Pacific Coast). He needs Western EU or Eastern US.
As far as Eastern US, you want someplace with good connectivity (ie...the most direct fiber routes) to EU...so NY/NJ or VA would probably be the best for that.
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Canada, the fuck California.
For EU: The Netherlands ofcourse
AMS-IX
Hahah...he already specified "US east cost or far west EU", so my mind didn't even go to another country to be considered.
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Geographically, there is no difference between NY and CA.
Is there supposed to be a scientific answer to this, or at least in part? 'loads 'o cables' go into the UK. There's a Spanish provider on here, plenty French, UK. Not sure about best but would be interested in a qualified answer. (think it relies more on being a qualified question of 'best'...)
Mirror for what? Just site content or some files? My cPanel hosting is in Montreal (east coast) and is not a bad location for both regions. Has unlimited bandwidth with the $14/y promo I'm running (check the shared hosting offers section).
Wrong. "As the crow flies" maybe...but it is not about geographic distance, but rather fiber distance and routes.
We don't have enough information from OP to know if it is going to make a difference or not to his application/needs.
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There is not truth, their is no wrong, it depends on the point of view.
NY is not far away from bloody Montreal or Torronto in Canada.
Depends also, which DC you compare it with, if Buffalo or NYC.....
The discussion can be continued until the end of time.
Exactly, and hence why alot of routes will go from there to NY first before hopping over the pond. With Canada also being typically a bit more expensive (in most cases), makes sense to just be in NY Metro area in the first place...NJ possibly the best of all choices for price and latency.
NYC Metro of course...as close to the transatlantic fiber as you can get.
Yup...and a different answer applicable for every application/need. It is not a one size fits all response..hence why I mentioned we do not have enough info from OP on his application/needs. :-)
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Honestly, for a website, latency doesn't matter enough to be geographically particular with your hosting choice. Anywhere in Europe or North America will be fine.
Would recommend against a CDN if your traffic is low because your assets will never be cached by the provider making response times worse than serving directly.
Hmm. Would you recommended Panama (NA) or Cyprus (EU), then?
Just kidding... go for Hawaii!
As others mentioned, east us or west eu is probably the best, but anywhere in us/eu works. Latency doesn't matter much for hosting websites most of the time, depending on the kind of website you have. However, I suspect small local businesses may find it more favorable to have low latency where they operate.
NY
This. OVH CA can be great, anywhere on the East Coast would probably work well. Ashburn can be great. LON, PAR or AMS too. Probably choose the area where you have most of your traffic coming from or (probably more important) where you know a provider that you like and feel confident with. US West coast would also work pretty well for a website: EU visitors won't probably notice the extra latency IF your provider has a decent network and your site is well optimized.
No need for a CDN if you host on the east coast of the US or western EU and are focusing on north america / EU, as long as you use a decent provider!
Thanks for the kind words!
NEW YORK
And by "NEW YORK" you mean New Jersey.
NEW YORK.
@chiezyy said:
New York is the best location.
From NY to London approx 70ms and from NY to Los Angeles approx 60ms.
Try our looking glass: https://gthost.com/looking-glass/
From NY to London:
traceroute to www.clouvider.co.uk (185.42.220.13), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 38.91.100.1 (38.91.100.1) 0.325 ms 0.353 ms 0.400 ms
2 ae11-2001.cr1-nyc4.ip4.gtt.net (69.174.18.161) 0.243 ms 0.284 ms 0.330 ms
3 xe-9-0-0.cr0-lon1.ip4.gtt.net (89.149.137.133) 71.306 ms 71.349 ms 71.391 ms
4 ip4.gtt.net (46.33.78.242) 71.435 ms 71.430 ms 71.424 ms
5 * * *
6 h185-145-200-9.reverse.clouvider.net (185.145.200.9) 71.548 ms 71.526 ms 71.522 ms
From NY to LA:
traceroute to 162.251.63.162 (162.251.63.162), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 38.91.100.1 (38.91.100.1) 0.253 ms 0.275 ms 0.315 ms
2 ae11-2001.cr1-nyc4.ip4.gtt.net (69.174.18.161) 0.356 ms 0.300 ms 0.390 ms
3 et-0-0-47.cr3-lax2.ip4.gtt.net (89.149.141.125) 60.200 ms 60.194 ms 60.187 ms
4 ip4.gtt.net (98.124.174.162) 60.343 ms 60.383 ms 60.377 ms
5 162.251.63.162 (162.251.63.162) 60.370 ms 60.362 ms 60.356 ms
And by "New York" you mean Newark, New Jersey, right ?
Azores.
BuyVM sells services in New York since you seem to be so obsessed.
In my experience, if you have more US visitors, US east coast is good.
If your target group is more EU based, but still want the US visitors to get a decent performance, UK is good.
But it should be noted that website optimization and hosting quality are very important. They make a lot more of a difference than server location.
So don't sweat the location too much, look for good quality hosting and optimize your website.
For development, I'd choose whichever location is "closer" to my home, all else being similar/equal.
BuyVM is in New Jersey also:
https://buyvm.net/new-jersey-datacenter/
I'm not the one that is "so obsessed" claiming New Jersey is New York.
New Jersey is cheap and very well connected - no need to keep telling people to be in "New York".
I don't think that's up to date. They moved out of Choopa some years ago, I believe into NYC. Not sure which facility though
https://buyvm.net/new-york-datacenter/
Hey @Francisco are you the one "New York" provider not in Buffalo or New Jersey ?