Customers are often troubled by the idea that their physical email or web servers are being hosted outside of Malaysia. The logic behind this is that data will take more time to travel to and from a server in the United States and Malaysia.
1. Does speed matter? The fact is, most of your favorite web services are being hosted outside of Malaysia. This includes pictures you’ve uploaded to your Facebook account, your daily ‘tweets,’ your favourite Youtube videos and more; and these are just some of our day-to-day online activities. Another fact is that no one has ever asked me where those services are hosted. They bear with long loading times because they want those services badly. Do you want mukabuku.com for the sake of it is hosted inside Malaysia and it just loads faster?
2. Let’s look at the differences in loading speed for a services hosted inside and outside Malaysia. First, let’s forget the fact that it takes you 12 hours by plane to reach the UK. Data transfer doesn’t work in that way, it’s much, much faster. The difference shown is in milliseconds. In most cases, the differences are less than 2 seconds, or 200 milliseconds. Does this really make a big difference?
3. Whatever the case, the speed of things is increasing. I started using the Internet via dial-ups, and at the time, that was fast enough for me. Then, in comes Streamyx and broadband, which got me all excited. Then, last week, I got Unify installed and, basically, it keeps getting faster and faster. With every upgrade, the gaps are minimized, and soon, there’ll be no gaps or close to no gaps at all!
The comparison between services hosted inside and outside Malaysia
Facebook servers in the US
Streamyx website hosted in Malaysia