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Web-Hosting Locations (Poll)
Hey everyone!
I'm curious what web-hosting locations you are most interested in!
As I have successfully launched services in .nl earlier this month, I'm considering where what the next location is that i should consider adding to the roadmap. The poll only features locations that i'm considering at the moment, so feel free to add suggestions in text form if they are missing.
In the Poll you can select which location you would be interested in seeing, or are actively looking for.
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All still very close! this needs more votes
Luxembourg 🇱🇺
I'm thinking about a couple of things:
Ireland has very few inhabitants and there's also more than enough choice of UK-based providers.
True.
same could also be said about germany - 33.33% (presumably)
I just listed some things i was thinking about.
Just my thoughts on this:
1) I voted for Germany because the majority of my bigger clients is from Germany and many want Germany as a hosting location. It is also the easiest way to comply with german law, kinda.
2) While I would have found Spain or Portugal interesting, of the top of my head I never see someone continously praising on the forums that they are so happy with their Spanish/Portugal Hosting Location and that it has been super performant. From my experience, there may be some good hosting providers in Spain/Portugal but it is almost never talked about them and I'd argue Germany (with Hetzner, PHPFriends and Netcup) brings just so much "better" performance-price ratio to the table (ifor a bit of +- ms ping difference). Hence why noone (noone I know) is actively looking for a Spain/Portugal location. I mean, our man @MikePT is also opting for Hetzner (DE) for his Shared Hosting :P
3) With Brexit I withdrew from any UK hosting locations. Talked it over with my lawyer several times. It is a pita GDPR wise (if you wanna do it right) and there is just no need for me to opt for UK, when in Europe I can have Hetzner in Germany and Finland, OVH in France, and Ramnode in NL.
4) US and Canada are locations I can't see being of any use to me in the (near) future.
So in my opinion Germany is kinda useless nowadays, it's just sooo saturated with hosts.
If you only knew the colocation prices here... And power. It's just crazy.
Are you in Spain @MikePT?
Please do share
I'm in Portugal
Just an example... A U1 with 2 TB bandwidth would cost you 100 EUR + VAT, at least, and that's good for like 0.5 Amps.
I'm evaluating the possibility of owning fiber connections, but that's a long-time plan. The DCs here itself are very expensive.
The owner of Skynethosting.net also lives in Portugal 🇵🇹 (at least the owner as of last year). His server locations also do not include Portugal/Spain.
Really? Woot, I didn't know that very interesting!
We have major players here with a nice monopoly, Claranet, PTisp, etc. It's just too expensive to colocate if you need, say, 10 or 20TB of bandwidth. I believe we have like 4 DCs in 3 cities, Lisbon, Porto, Viseu.
Seems to be from Sri Lanka as per his LinkedIn, could be outdated tho!
Oops! You might be right. Almost 2 years ago they had delivered my control panel and billing system in Portuguese and level 1 support told me it was because of the owner. Level 1 support doesn't always know.
My 2nd favorite city on earth is Tomar with the Convent of Christ. Have you visited there? We participate as contributors in a Museum just South of Tomar.
Of course I know it! I live like 15km from Tomar... 😁
How did you contribute?
The Vila Nova da Barquinha Municipality (just South of Tomar, Portugal, where the famous Castle of Almourol is located) entered into an agreement with two branches of the Templar Order – the Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolimitani Universalis (OSMTHU) and the Ordre Sovereign et Militaiire du Temple de Jerusalem (OSMTJ) – to declare the municipality and the Interpretation Center Almourol Templar (CITA) as an International place of interest where we've located the International Templar Museum.
Read more here: https://templars.wordpress.com/2019/10/15/vn-barquinha-celebrates-protocol-with-templar-order-that-will-make-cita-the-worlds-most-important-repository-on-the-order-of-the-temple/
We donated documents and money to The C.I.T.A. Museum. That other organization, The OSMTHU, did more as they are located in Portugal. They did the heavy lifting and enjoyed the ribbon cutting ceremonies (we are primarily in the USA).
Singapore
Wow wasn't aware of that, at all! So you've been in Portugal! I hope you enjoyed staying here mate. It's a beautiful country. Wouldn't move to any other country, its formidable. Thank you for the explanation by the way, I learn new stuff every day!
As somebody that offers multiple locations, I would strongly advise any businesses that are considering expanding to add another 6..12..24 months to their timeline.
With that being said, scandanavia ftw.
Pretty solid advice
I do have a timeline
One step at a time....
Keep quoting this, and lets break css when you don't have folding quotes on
I second this. Not only because I'm Swedish, but because Scandinavia is a big black hole on the hosting map. Most of Scandinavia have excellent infrastructure and top tier connectivity, but the lowend hosting market is nonexistent.