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Posted by Charles Sweeney on July 10, 2006, 1:31 pm
Please log in for more thread options William Tasso wrote
> Fleeing from the madness of the No thank you jungle
> news:alt.www.webmaster
> and said:
>
>> David Cary Hart wrote
>>
>>> On 7 Jul 2006 13:51:08 -0700, techsonpl@gmail.com opined:
>>>> Hello, we can offer you our business plan who gives you the
>>>> following :
>>>>
>>> Slow as hell!. Check the ping times.
>>
>> I hate having to wait three milliseconds longer than I need to!!!
>
> Well - it may not matter to you, but if 120ms ping times[1] were
> acceptable to my customers I'd locate my servers in the USA or Malasia
> where it's cheaper than dear old blighty. Alternatively, I could
> locate them in the cavern here and run them on the end of one of my
> DSL links where I have plenty capacity[2] to spare.
>
> 'horses for courses' applies it seems.
Absolutely. Most of my customers/users are in the States, where my
server is. But even at that, I doubt if any would notice a difference
of one tenth of a second, and I am very surprised that your customers
have demanded to drop that extra tenth, or indeed gave it any regard.
--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com
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