@Dennis

For the normal user to notice the difference in latency, you will require a web application that needs to perform lots of  near real time queries and load a large number of assets.

If it's the usual website, blog, e-commerce, email, CMSs, then almost no one will notice the latency difference.

I'm willing to bet that if we loaded one site on both servers, all factors constant,  and told people in this thread to pick the "faster one", ie the locally hosted one, most of us wouldn't tell the difference.


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Kind regards,

Brian Wangila
Web developer  |  UI Designer
Lead Developer - Skyline Design Ltd