Rory Browne wrote:
>
> Why? If they're not hosting it in-house, why does it matter where on
> the globe it is?
Request latency due to distance and intermediate hops. The shorter the
distance and fewer hops the faster those little images, stylesheets, and
various other embedded media will load. This won't be very noticeable on
the first page load due to the download times, but other requests that
check timestamps against cache will appear more sluggish than necessary.
It's also more fault tolerent. I don't imagine this ever happening, but if
the UK was somehow cut off from all other countries internet system, then
the UK customers would still be able to access sites in the UK, but not
sites outside of the UK. It's one less thing that can go wrong.
Seems to me to be too much worrying about a, "vary basic web site". The
OP is willing to accept one or two outages a year, ya know?
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