Hoe u het land van uw hosting kiest

Omdat wij hosting aanbieden in 18 landen, ons wordt nu vaak gevraagd:

Welk land moet ik kiezen voor mijn hosting?…

Hoewel we dit voor uw geval niet kunnen beantwoorden, wij kunnen u het raamwerk bieden om zelf een antwoord te vinden.

Er zijn vandaag de dag drie belangrijke factoren die we moeten begrijpen:

• everything is about speed ;
• privacy wetten ;
• 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 customers

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. Echter: 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, enz). Brazil on the other hand might have political risks. In our view the safest location in terms of risk is:

Ireland

And the most risky location is:

Japan

Regarding privacy wetten: some countries do not allow data to be exported out of their jurisdiction. Bijvoorbeeld: for business in the EU it is required to be hosted in the EU (and that include backups).