Title: hosting?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# hosting?

 *  [rod247](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rod247/)
 * (@rod247)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hosting-21/)
 * I have been told to host my sites in the uk as I live in the uk as this would
   mean the site would load quicker then if the site was hosted in, say the USA.
   Please could someone tell me if this is true?

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hosting-21/#post-5076838)
 * Sort of yes, but it’s not really as important as it seems.
 * The shorter the line, the faster the load, but only by a few milliseconds. If
   your site were hosted in the UK, and you are in the UK, your site would load 
   a millisecond or two faster for you than it would if it were hosted in the USA.
 * With that said, the web is a world-wide thing. What your UK visitors gain in 
   speed by moving the hosting to the UK, your USA visitors will lose, and similar
   across the globe.
 * What I mean to say by all this is that you should go with the hosting provider
   you like, not just the one that’s close to you, because your audience can be 
   global and not just local. What benefits one locale, won’t benefit another, so
   it’s really not that important.
 * If the benefits of a local server are still of interest to you, add a cloud proxy
   like [https://www.cloudflare.com/](https://www.cloudflare.com/) on top of your
   preferred hosting service.
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hosting-21/#post-5076839)
 * Yes, it is true. It will give you a very small speed advantage. The biggest reason
   for doing this is if you have a .co.uk (or other .uk) domain as Google does tend
   to rank country-specfic sites slightly higher if they are hosted in that country.
 * BUT… it all comes down to the price. I’ve seen with my own country that hosting
   here is at least twice as expensive as it is in the US, so I have some that I
   don’t host here. But I do still host the most important ones in the “correct”
   country.
 *  Thread Starter [rod247](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rod247/)
 * (@rod247)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hosting-21/#post-5076947)
 * Many thanks for your response. I will take what you said on board. Great thank
   you. As it is for a client i guess I had better go to a UK for Hosting.
    So now
   to choose a UK hosting. Any recommendations? I always seem to have had problems
   with 1and 1.
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hosting-21/#post-5076949)
 * Please don’t ask for hosting recommendations. Your thread will get closed as 
   soon as the moderators see it. 😉 Asking for hosting suggestions does nothing
   more then generate 100’s of “Host here!” comments from SPAM’ers trying to pimp
   their own (normally bad) services.
 *  Thread Starter [rod247](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rod247/)
 * (@rod247)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hosting-21/#post-5076955)
 * Oh dear ! Of course I quite understand.

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