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Local Hosting for local clients?

by Young Samurai
7 replies
If I intend to build websites for local clients is it better for seo purposes to have the hosting servers located in the same country?

In other words do I require reseller hosting with UK based servers?

Or, are we now in such a global village that it really doesn't make a lot of difference?
#clients #hosting #local
  • Profile picture of the author electronik69
    To my knowledge I highly doubt that a hosting account has any impact on SEO, but if there is a hosting company which does have SEM priority I would love to hear of it .

    If you are just starting I don't think you would really need to bother having a reseller account with a hosting company. Maybe get a couple of clients under your belt.

    I would use something like hostgator start off with the baby croc package then advance from there you can still get a fair amount of websites on there.

    Then charge clients $20/mo for hosting or whatever you want to charge.

    The good thing about doing it this way is you don't have a heap of hosting accounts you have to monitor, you can just stick with the one account.

    But to answer your question no it doesn't really make a difference the only thing would be to consider the price, as I live in Australia my local hosting companies are a complete rip-off compared to hosting companies in America, I don't know if there is a similar problem in the UK. Also be wary of the domain name I know that sites like hostgator charge extra if you want a .com.au to be hosted by them, I am not to sure about .co.uk.

    Hopefully that helps,

    Regards,

    Tim
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    • Profile picture of the author seoparadise
      Hi, i would recommend local servers since the webpages, ftp, videos, etc will be faster than other location.

      Also depends on the hosting company you choose
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  • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
    For SEO the only thing that will really make the difference is your domain. If you're in Ireland get a .ie domain. Get backlinks from a .ie domain. That's what really makes the difference.
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  • Profile picture of the author Peter Olson
    Speed is important for SEO now for sure. I personally have several different locations even within the US to get faster pageloads (plus can say hostedes all over the us).

    Hosting is fairly cheap now so getting a couple different places wont break the bank. I use linode.com which allows me to host in many different locations and countries all on the same account.
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    • Profile picture of the author Shoot
      Google, takes the TLD origin over the IP origin.
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      • Profile picture of the author ClarkKent
        Speed is one of the factors Google looks at when determining SERP.

        I usually stick to a model of US hosts for North America.
        UK hosts for Europe.
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        Australian hosts for Australia.

        Speed-wise, as long as you're going with a reputable supplier you won't see any difference as long as you're on the same continent.

        I'm from Toronto, have a host based-on Front St. Great guys, great support, gave me a great deal on my hosting.
        Yet, I've seen hosts based out of Softlayer (Dallas) that gave me better speeds overall (HawkHost was the one I used previously).
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