Comment choisir le pays de votre hébergement

Parce que nous proposons un hébergement en 18 pays, on nous demande souvent maintenant:

Quel pays dois-je choisir pour mon hébergement?…

Bien que nous ne puissions pas y répondre pour votre cas, nous pouvons vous donner le cadre pour trouver une réponse vous-même.

Il y a trois facteurs importants à comprendre aujourd'hui:

• everything is about speed ;
• lois sur la confidentialité ;
• a country is associated with risks.

In general, our best answer is simply:

you have to pick the location which is the closest to your clients

It gets tricky for some people because their business is global. In this case your customers are everywhere in the world. In any case: a majority of your customers should come from one country in particular, and it is this country (or the closest location to that country) that you need to pick. Cependant: since your customers are global, you need to alter your website and serve your static scripts using CDN (« Content Delivery Network »). This can only be done once by modifying some code (and it something we would do).

In terms of risks: Japan has obviously natural catastrophe risks (tsunamis, earthquakes, power outage, etc). Brazil on the other hand might have political risks. In our view the safest location in terms of risk is:

Irlande

And the most risky location is:

Japon

Regarding lois sur la confidentialité: some countries do not allow data to be exported out of their jurisdiction. Par exemple: for business in the EU it is required to be hosted in the EU (and that include backups).