Hosting a Website in India or Abroad: What is Better?
When choosing a provider to host a website, a common question comes up about what is best: hosting a website in India or abroad?
It is always important to remember that each site exists in some physical location in the world. It can be a personal computer turned into a server (which is not very recommended), or a professional server. In either case, it is running somewhere physically, making those files public.
But what is the difference between hosting websites in India or abroad?
In fact, the main difference between a website hosted on servers in the country or out of it is latency. Latency means the response time between the user of the site requesting an action (such as clicking on a product or accessing the shopping cart, for example) and the website performing the action it requested, or between the sites displaying something necessary to the user.
If we think of the internet as a large web, where servers are interconnected, the further the server is, the longer the return time will be. In summary: sites and systems hosted on servers in other countries have a higher latency. A site hosted in India, for example, will have a latency of 20 milliseconds if accessed from virtually any state in the country and in some South American countries.
A page hosted in the United States or Europe will have a higher latency, starting at 180 Milliseconds. It’s a big difference, which will affect the loading speed and navigation of the website.
Still, in the matter of latency, an important point needs to be considered: The loading speed of your page directly interferes with your search engine optimization. The longer your site takes to load, the less likely it is to be ranked. Search engines, like Google, prioritize pages that have faster loading (as we’ve talked about here).
The speed of response is one of the only technical differences between having your website hosted in India or abroad. Other than that, there are other important issues to think about.
Reasons to Hire Website Hosting in India:
Support
Support should be an important factor to consider when searching for a hosting. If by any chance, something happens to your server, you will want to immediately contact the support of your hosting. In international hosting, a barrier that you may come across is the language. If the support is not 24×7, you should also know what the time zone is, as you run the risk of having to wait a few precious hours to be attended to.