Guest Laimonas Posted March 3, 2006 Posted March 3, 2006 Hello, am thinking about choosing TCH for my site. Have 2 questions: 1) I receive average 220 ms ping time from Lithuania for www.totalchoicehosting.com Is it possible to shorten this time if locate my site at your eastern US data center servers? 2) Have you finished your servers upgrade? Thank you. Sincerely, Laimonas Quote
TCH-JimE Posted March 3, 2006 Posted March 3, 2006 Hello Laimonas, 1) My ping time from the UK to the same website is 120ms, this can easily vary on the route it takes and what else is on the network. A fast response today, does not mean a fast response tomorrow. All our network centers have incredible fast connections so the position of the server will make little difference. 2) We don't have any rule which states you will get the slowest / oldest server, all servers are highly equipped to cope with the websites they hold! I just wish my own home computers was that good! We look foward to welcoming you as part of the family! JimE Quote
Guest Guest Posted March 3, 2006 Posted March 3, 2006 Jim, the question is - average ping to some hosting companies in the USA is 170 ms. Yours is 220. I've pinged about 10 sites. One or two showed 150 ms, one nearly 300 ms. I think Eastern coast in closer to Europe, so ping is faster. Quote
Madmanmcp Posted March 3, 2006 Posted March 3, 2006 Hi Laimonas, I believe Jim answered your question. Pings times will be different even if you ping the same site. And this is not something that is under the control of TCH or any other hosting company. You are thousands of miles away and are being routed by hundreds of different routers to get back and forth across the ocean. Your ping times will vary and it is not something TCH can control. Quote
youneverknow Posted March 3, 2006 Posted March 3, 2006 Hi, I remember reading a thread about the Head Guru announcing Servers in the UK. In fact, here it is... post Jan 16 2005, 08:12 AM Post #1 Bill Kish Head Guru **** Group: Admins Posts: 5368 Joined: 15-October 02 Member No.: 1 "Starting February 1, 2005 TCH will be offering hosting services on servers located in a prestigious United Kingdom Data Center! In an effort to provide our European customers with more options, any customer wishing to have their account hosted on a UK server will now has the opportunity to do so. For users whose primary audience is within Europe, this will ensure even faster links to the servers. The servers will, of course, be the same high spec and reliable machines that have become the standard at TotalChoice Hosting. The core network architecture is, as TCH customers have come to expect, second to none utilising the highest quality equipment from Juniper, Foundry and Cisco. This is setup in a fully redundant mesh allowing us to offer high availability and exceptional throughput with the usual backup of UPS units (4x 500KVA MGE) and generators (3x 2.5MVA Caterpillar diesel Generators) 2005 will be a big year for TCH, with many new options in the works. We look forward to providing you the best hosting available and we thank you for your continued support. Updates will be posted here as we roll out the new UK servers." Bill You might want to drop a service ticket to sales and see if TCH is still in the UK youneveknow Quote
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