If you do choose to host in another country all you need to do is check that their data centre has good peering with your own country, if they do then you are unlikely to notice any difference. If the hosts own web site loads fast and shows no obvious lag, then you are probably good. However one problem you may have is SEO, as a UK based site hosted in the USA will have an IP address that geo locates it in the USA in search results.
Russ -----Original Message----- From: Mike Kear [mailto:afpwebwo...@gmail.com] Sent: 24 November 2010 23:09 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Free ColdFusion Hosting I'm not sure what your problem is with hosting in another country. Specially not if the other country is the USA. It's not going anywhere. I've been hosting sites in the USA since 1996 and never once had a problem related to the physical location. At first i expected to have performance problems because of the distance between the server and the users, but those fears proved to be groundless. There is plenty of bandwidth carrying data around the world, and quite frankly i dont think it matters where your server is located, unless you have pretty significant amounts of traffic. There ARE issues you need to think about with any hosting company, but geographic location isn't one of them, if the company is located in one of the G20 countries. Incidentally, as a sidebar, I received a UCE last month from a Russian web host, offering to host any project I might wish to host, including (and i was astonished to see this spelled out): credit card fraud, (yes, they used the word "fraud"!) personal details collection (meaning phishing I assume) music file sharing adult files porn movies child pornography (yes! They actually invited me to host child porn! ) I was flabbergasted that they were so open and blatant about it. Needless to say I wasnt interested in what they have to offer, and I referred their offer to the Australian Federal Police. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Paul Alkema <paulalkemadesi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Matthew, > If it was me, I wouldn't poo-poo it just because it's hosted out of the > country. If it's free, I wouldn't expect GREAT honest but it's free right!? > I would think as long as your not looking to put anything that you want to > keep secure on it IE; credit card data, SSN's, other people's passwords ect, > that you'd be fine. > > If it was me I would just sign up, pay the £1.00 setup fee (don't know if > you saw that or not) and if they charge you more than £1.00 than it's credit > card fraud, file a dispute with your cc company which is really easy and you > get your money back. > > If you do, do it, make sure you share your experience with everyone so we > can see how it worked out for you. ;) > > Paul Alkema > http://paulalkema.co ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339527 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
