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Hi All,
I plan to have a geographically specific web based business. Does it matter where the hosting, development is done if the traffic/clientale is in another region?

In other words, could I have a site developed, hosted and maintained in US for an Asian market specific business?
Any pros and cons?

Thanks,
KJ
      

Not really.  It`s the WORLD wide web, so the location of the server is generally irrelevant.  If it`s on another continent, you may run into some latency or slow links in the path between the server and the user, but it doesn`t happen often.

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Thanks Guys!

The only drawback is if you offer not only a lot of image based content or items to download (files/music/documents/etc) and your customer base is in the Far East or South Asia the download times can be longer.  If your customers will be in Africa (specifically Southern Africa) I would strongly suggest getting hosting in South Africa/Johannesburg.

In my last `worker bee job` one of my jobs was to deliver different web content all over the world and some countries aren`t really up to par when it comes to North America, Europe, or the Far East`s standards of internet quality.


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Thanks Aaron for the info!

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Hi,

I agree with the load time on the servers; which is not a big deal because there are literally 1,000`s of server companies overseas.  But if you do run your website on a U.S server make sure you classify the country you are targeting in your Robot.txt.

This will tell Google & Yahoo to target that country when they download your site.

Jeff

Thats a good point Jeff.
Can you give more details about robot.txt. Is this generated by the web designer?
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Hi

My advice would be go directly to the source that wants you to include a robot.txt file:

Google Webmaster Help Center | How to create a Robot.txt file?

Jeff