I did some speed testing with CloudFlare, and with the default settings; the website runs slightly slower from some locations, and slightly faster from others, averaging out to no overall gain (their DNS service is good though).
However a more comprehensive CDN rollout works well. Matthew On 27 February 2014 12:12, Stephen Shkardoon <[email protected]>wrote: > You can probably just use something like Cloudflare for that kind of > thing, if it's going to be an issue. Given it's free, it's hard to find a > good reason not to roll it out for a global site I guess. > > > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Matthew Whyte @ FirstLayer < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I can second Petah's suggestion of Linode's Fremont CA datacentre, I've >> had a good experience there. >> >> However because you've got a global spread, I'd recommend using some sort >> of CDN / caching, where there are nodes all around the world. What type of >> application is it? Global caching is an area of speciality for me, so am >> happy to help you out. >> >> Cheers, >> Matthew >> >> >> On 27 February 2014 10:55, Nicolaas Thiemen Francken <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> Is there some sort of rule of thumb for best hosting location based on >>> where the website visitors are coming from. >>> >>> I am looking at something like this: >>> NZ: 32% >>> AU: 17% >>> US: 17% >>> EU: 17% >>> ASIA: 8% >>> SOUTH AMERICA: 6% >>> AFRICA: 3% >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Nicolaas >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug >>> To post, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "NZ PHP Users Group" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> -- >> -- >> NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug >> To post, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NZ PHP Users Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NZ PHP Users Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NZ PHP Users Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
