When considering to get a web hosting, most of the people I talk to start with setting a budget. The next thing they look at is whether they should get a foreign or a local web hosting provider.
In most instances, foreign web hosting companies offer similar services at lower prices. At first glance, it does seem that it doesn’t make any sense to buy from a local web hosting provider. At this point, customers should be aware of the following checks.
One, test the speed of the servers by doing a ping test. “Ping what?” When you perform a ping test, you are using a utility to forward data packets to test the quality of a connection to a machine from where you reside.
You can run a ping test from the DOS command using Windows. Click Start > Run and type in “cmd” (without the quotation marks). A Dos window should be launched. In the Dos prompt, enter “ping www.your-test-host.com”.
When you do that, your machine will send 4 data packets and you should see the response time of the reply from the web server. Pay attention to the Approximate Round Trip in milli-seconds. Our local servers average 34ms. A ping test on...
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