Thread: Why host in Europe?

What's the advantage for a U.S. company to Host in Europe?

as in every country, the netherlands have good boys and bad boys.

you are right when you say, that netherlands are more expensive that US or even other countries - the point here is, that there aren´t so much companies really based in the near of the bigdatacenters and that means, they have to pay freelancers who are there.

and those people are extremly expensive, because they have to live in an area, what is the most expensive in whole netherlands. some months ago i talked to one if these tech-freelancers there and he told me that he have to pay for a 28 squaremeters appartement in the near of the big DCs in Amsterdam something like 2.000 euros and he is even glad to have one.

but fact is, that you don´t have another chance for adulthosting, if you have your customers in the germanspeaking countries. all lines from overseas are dramaticly slower and kills revenue. to choose germany itself as hosting location (what would be the cheapest and fastest solution) is absolutely unrealistic for somebody who does not accept the german AVS rules - and somebody who accept it, does not really need a hosting (they would be even happy with a warm soup for dinner).

there are some quite reliable hostings in france, but here it´s nessecary to speak their language, because the majority is not giving informations or support in german or at least in english . so at the end of the day, the netherlands are the one and only rational location for hosting in europe.

but just hosting in netherlands is not the general-answer to satisfy german customers. the point is, that only very few of the amsterdam hosters have a direct connection with german telekom, what is the main lineowner an biggest provider in germany. if the hoster has no direct connection with telekom germany it might be even worse to host in amsterdam as in usa.

at the end of the day there´s only the chance to grow a company up as big as possible to give a worldwide clustering the real sense.

have fun at net

thommy

Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell

I look forward to announcing our European hosting next month. Until then,

Brad

Did you guys launched it yet?

Don't forget that the largest node of internet traffic in Europe is in Amsterdam. For bandwidth hosting in Europe, the Netherlands is the place to be.