I have a number of sites, some .com, .net, .co.uk and a couple of .fr 
none of which are particularly region specific in terms of the audience 
they are addressed at  so does it really matter where they are hosted ? 
   Reason I ask is that the hosting company I am using in France for the 
majority, whilst cheap, is not the most reliable and sometimes it is 
difficult to debug a problem because you can't be sure if it is the code 
or the server that is at fault.

What is the advantage of having a .co.uk hosted in the UK, a .fr hosted 
in France ?

Steve

"Steve Y" wrote in message news:7f34sdF2ed0leU1@mid.individual.net...
>I have a number of sites, some .com, .net, .co.uk and a couple of .fr none 
>of which are particularly region specific in terms of the audience they are 
>addressed at  so does it really matter where they are hosted ? Reason I ask 
>is that the hosting company I am using in France for the majority, whilst 
>cheap, is not the most reliable and sometimes it is difficult to debug a 
>problem because you can't be sure if it is the code or the server that is 
>at fault.
>
> What is the advantage of having a .co.uk hosted in the UK, a .fr hosted in 
> France ?

From my experience it's primarily the search engines. When you are given the 
option to search for sites in your country only, Google seems to determine 
this by host location and domain suffix.

I can't get UK recognition by metadata on a .com domain hosted in US, but my 
.co.uk domain hosted in Denmark does.

So if .fr is your TLD you should be fine to have a host anywhere. One.com 
are stable and cheap but it is no-frills.

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> "Steve Y" wrote in message news:7f34sdF2ed0leU1@mid.individual.net...
>>I have a number of sites, some .com, .net, .co.uk and a couple of .fr none 
>>of which are particularly region specific in terms of the audience they 
>>are addressed at  so does it really matter where they are hosted ? Reason 
>>I ask is that the hosting company I am using in France for the majority, 
>>whilst cheap, is not the most reliable and sometimes it is difficult to 
>>debug a problem because you can't be sure if it is the code or the server 
>>that is at fault.
>>
>> What is the advantage of having a .co.uk hosted in the UK, a .fr hosted 
>> in France ?
>
> From my experience it's primarily the search engines. When you are given 
> the option to search for sites in your country only, Google seems to 
> determine this by host location and domain suffix.
>
> I can't get UK recognition by metadata on a .com domain hosted in US, but 
> my .co.uk domain hosted in Denmark does.
>
> So if .fr is your TLD you should be fine to have a host anywhere. One.com 
> are stable and cheap but it is no-frills.
>
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I have a site with One.com and I find it a bit slow.

AC

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> "dE|_"  wrote in message 
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>> "Steve Y" wrote in message news:7f34sdF2ed0leU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>I have a number of sites, some .com, .net, .co.uk and a couple of .fr 
>>>none of which are particularly region specific in terms of the audience 
>>>they are addressed at  so does it really matter where they are hosted ? 
>>>Reason I ask is that the hosting company I am using in France for the 
>>>majority, whilst cheap, is not the most reliable and sometimes it is 
>>>difficult to debug a problem because you can't be sure if it is the code 
>>>or the server that is at fault.
>>>
>>> What is the advantage of having a .co.uk hosted in the UK, a .fr hosted 
>>> in France ?
>>
>> From my experience it's primarily the search engines. When you are given 
>> the option to search for sites in your country only, Google seems to 
>> determine this by host location and domain suffix.
>>
>> I can't get UK recognition by metadata on a .com domain hosted in US, but 
>> my .co.uk domain hosted in Denmark does.
>>
>> So if .fr is your TLD you should be fine to have a host anywhere. One.com 
>> are stable and cheap but it is no-frills.
>>
>>
>
> I have a site with One.com and I find it a bit slow.

Like I say, no-frills. I don't keep crackguitar with them anymore as there's 
audio & video now on there and they do not rate for that bitrate. (CG is on 
the US host). I find it fine for bog-standard static stuff.

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> "AC"  wrote in message 
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>> "dE|_"  wrote in message 
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>>> "Steve Y" wrote in message news:7f34sdF2ed0leU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>I have a number of sites, some .com, .net, .co.uk and a couple of .fr 
>>>>none of which are particularly region specific in terms of the audience 
>>>>they are addressed at  so does it really matter where they are hosted ? 
>>>>Reason I ask is that the hosting company I am using in France for the 
>>>>majority, whilst cheap, is not the most reliable and sometimes it is 
>>>>difficult to debug a problem because you can't be sure if it is the code 
>>>>or the server that is at fault.
>>>>
>>>> What is the advantage of having a .co.uk hosted in the UK, a .fr hosted 
>>>> in France ?
>>>
>>> From my experience it's primarily the search engines. When you are given 
>>> the option to search for sites in your country only, Google seems to 
>>> determine this by host location and domain suffix.
>>>
>>> I can't get UK recognition by metadata on a .com domain hosted in US, 
>>> but my .co.uk domain hosted in Denmark does.
>>>
>>> So if .fr is your TLD you should be fine to have a host anywhere. 
>>> One.com are stable and cheap but it is no-frills.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I have a site with One.com and I find it a bit slow.
>
> Like I say, no-frills. I don't keep crackguitar with them anymore as 
> there's audio & video now on there and they do not rate for that bitrate. 
> (CG is on the US host). I find it fine for bog-standard static stuff.

Fair enough, but I don't equate 'no frills' for 'slow'.

I would recommend their hosting as a cheapo play host for people wanting to 
learn or for little personal sites. IIRC, it cost me £9 for a year. Cant 
complain, and I'm not. I'm getting pretty much what I paid for.

And now I think about it, my site has never, AFAIK, been down. So they must 
be pretty stable.

AC

I have been using a French hosting provider and this week all of their 
servers have been down at some point
, 1 took 12hours to come back up.

Interestingly whereas they offer to host amongst others  .co.uk domains, 
Easily in the UK said they couldn't handle a .fr domain.

Will continue to look

Steve


AC wrote:

> 
> And now I think about it, my site has never, AFAIK, been down. So they must 
> be pretty stable.
> 
> AC 
> 
>