Fellow UK marketers - which US host are you using?

I agree, I live in the UK and used to be with Godady, I then switched to Hostgator, I noticed a big difference in speeds, also, there is no finer customer support than HG, they have a 24/7 help line.

Hope this helps.

Kevin

Moaners moan.

For all we know, those sites are graphic-laden, with no attention given to image size or resolution, and/or they may be running very processor intensive server apps. There could be something as rash as 47 WP plugins w/ affiliate feeds from 12 different aggregators, or as simple as one very poorly written plugin to do something "sweet".

There are many reasons for a site to be slow, and the "moaners" may/may not have a clue as to why their site is slow. It's easier to blame it on the hosting company, than to try to determine the true cause.

I really don't understand your rationale, here. Given your first post, and the responses you received, I would think you would want to try US hosting for the new site that is targeting a US audience.

Putting that site on UK-based hosting won't teach you anything new. Regardless of how it fares, you won't know whether it would have done better if you had put it on a US-based server.


EDIT: looks like you had second thoughts, and have now reached a decision more in keeping w/ your intent.