Favorite server location?

[SrsX]

Mine is Germany. I got a paid off server for the next 6 months, 100mbit unmetered, 6 ip addresses, dual 500gb drives in raid1.

I use it for hosting some backups, data, a few websites, etc. It's fairly cheap, costed me about $350.

What's your favorite server location and why?

 

[budi1413]

West Coast of US because of combination low latency and cheap cost.

 

[GVH-Jon]

Mine is Buffalo, NY.

*waits for shitstorm*

jk my favorite location is Chicago IL

 

[fizzyjoe908]

I'd have to say Chicago too. Even if it wasn't so close to me, it is a large POP for virtually all carriers.

 

[SrsX]

See, I don't mind Chicago, however I prefer "offshore" places like Germany, Netherlands, etc. because of the less-strict speach laws, content laws, etc.

It's quite funny, the provider I use with my dedicated server, they gave me free 5 ips, when originally I only needed 1 ip which I paid for. So, they gave me 5 more ips anyways(all usable).

 

[drmike]

Chicago is alright, but not central US...

I like Kansas City, wish there were more options/networks there or in other cities darn near US Central.

I prefer offshore for real stuff where the false DMCA's and other speech chilling BS gets  /dev/null.

 

[SrsX]

drmike: Well, in regards to false DMCA's, offshore mostly all DMCA's is ignored. One provider I know the only report they ever responded to was the datacenter giving them the boot after the police stormed the datacenter and took the servers offline.

 

[blergh]

localhost.

 

[fizzyjoe908]

The thing with locations "more" central than Chicago is that traffic usually goes through Chicago anyway so it just adds an extra hop - Kansas City in particular.

 

[drmike]

The thing with locations "more" central than Chicago is that traffic usually goes through Chicago anyway so it just adds an extra hop - Kansas City in particular.

That's true as we see hops now.  Fact is plenty of cross connect points lit that are more central and not just being back hauled to CHI or DAL.

KC suffers from not so great cheap backhaulers for the network.  A more diverse mix and they'd probably be doing gangbusters on sales and twice as big.  

 

[drmike]

I am also a fan of Canada period.   Coast to Coast latency much less than US... Decent to Europe if Toronto/Montreal.

That might have something to do with being my neighbors here, ehh..

 

[vRozenSch00n]

My first love was with RamHost KC

 

[Coastercraze]

I like Colo@'s 34 Peachtree location in Atlanta, GA. Been in that facility since they built it and now it's expanded.

 

[peterw]

Detroit as an alternative to Chicago

Los Angeles for my friends/family in Japan

Jacksonville for my friends in Brazil

 

[Ruchirablog]

Atlanta

 

[SrsX]

I am also a fan of Canada period.   Coast to Coast latency much less than US... Decent to Europe if Toronto/Montreal.

That might have something to do with being my neighbors here, ehh..

Canada is a nice location also, I must say. I don't see a lot of providers in there outside of OVH.

 

[Aldryic C'boas]

We'd considered CA for awhile.. but with two NA deployments already it'd just be redundant.

 

[wlanboy]

• Netherland and UK - next to the northern countries [Ramnode, DotVPS]
• Florida - next to the south america countries [Tactical VPS]
• Detroit and Dallas - for the middle of the US [AnyNode and Catalysthost]
• Buffalo - to have a cheap playground [blueVM]
• New York - for the in between location [buyVM]

 

[AuroraZero]

Liked Denver was a good network and worked good for my clients. What little I had that is. I no longer have since my provider up and moved and no I am on the West Coast with shit ping and shit IO. Hopefully will be changing this after the first of the year though.

Might give Chicago and go but not CC EVER!!! Need to find a good network and good servers there.

 

[wlanboy]

Might give Chicago and go but not CC EVER!!! Need to find a good network and good servers there.

You might try Detroit or Dallas.